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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I feel growing up in Mumbai is an advantage, as we grow up speaking so many languages that when we go abroad, it becomes easier to learn new languages.
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My father was a trained accountant, a BCom from Sydenham College and a self-taught violinist. In the 1920s, when he was in his teens, he heard a great violinist, Jascha Heifetz, and he was so inspired listening to him that he bought himself a violin, and with a little help from an Italian teacher, he learned to play it.
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Just imagine, the thousands and thousands of concerts that take place every single day, all over the world. And the positive effect that they would have on the people listening. Now imagine a world without this. This void... it is unthinkable.
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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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If we are able to inspire people with our music, we can raise more funds.
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I pay my tributes to my dearest friend and the greatest musician of India Ravi Shanker. It has been a long time since we made music together. I will never forget the last time we worked together.
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I don't want to hear this as a vice, really what we do with our money. She didn't need to steal from us.
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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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The check comes home, she puts it in the bank, and we both spend.
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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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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.
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My family and relatives alone could fill Shanmukhananda Hall in Bombay.
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Most Arab Israelis speak Hebrew, but not the other way around. It's about time that changed.