Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehtais an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and the Main Conductor for Valencia's opera house. Mehta is also the chief conductor of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino festival...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth29 April 1936
CountryIndia
alone family fill hall
My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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The private sector is growing so incredibly in India, in every city you have industries for whom building a concert hall would be nothing financially. But they just don't do it.
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It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.
anybody coming interested last opening sitting
We have an opening for concertmaster, and we weren't able to find anybody in the last set of auditions. Would you be interested in coming and sitting with us for a month?
musical performance technical troubling
It is the technical part of the performance which is troubling me more than the musical part.
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There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.
people
There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
time york
New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
israelis time
Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
european life
If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
known since
I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.
people whenever
I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
home
I'm a pucca Indian. Bombay is my home.
convert
I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.