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
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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.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
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As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.
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Israel is a piece of real estate that neither Jew or Arab will let go of; neither will leave these shores. And so they will have to learn to live together.
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I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.
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...Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our delight and satisfaction, and has availed himself with distinction.
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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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?
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It is the technical part of the performance which is troubling me more than the musical part.
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There are people who think I am Israeli. That's rubbish.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.