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
boston chicago cleveland orchestra order sacrifice time
I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
central orchestras
I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.
competition conductor constantly difficult direct good great hall nature orchestras seems york
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.
attitude disagree orchestra
An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
israel orchestra satisfaction
...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.
men long orchestra
A woman's life in the orchestra is not as long as a man's; she is just not as good at 60 as a man is at 60.
cities quality orchestra
There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
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.
arab hand israel jewish school students study
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.
alone family fill hall
My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
israelis time
Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.