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 am jealous of all those people who live on the shore of Dal Lake.
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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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An American orchestra doesn't want to play more than it has to. I respectfully disagree with that attitude.
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Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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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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I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.
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I am always hearing from Israelis, 'Oh, CNN is anti-Israel,' or 'BBC is against us.' But no, they are reporting facts.
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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.