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
central orchestras
I endeavor that all orchestras I conduct sound Central European.
indebted music musically
We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
demanding giving highest musicians standard
American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.
critics
Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.
art designers work
I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
time
I think conductors do spend too little time with their orchestras.
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.
chosen few medical musician parents profession studied
My parents had chosen the medical profession for me. I even studied a few semesters at St Xavier's College, but at the back of my mind, I always wanted to be a musician like my father.
easily fixed might move open otherwise people rehearsals
Open rehearsals reach people who might not otherwise hear the Philharmonic - people on fixed incomes, people who can't move easily at night, students.
conductors sell sure
Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
concert hall incredibly industries private sector whom
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.
asked asking consider expressed israel maybe might newspapers
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.
work york
The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.
great york
The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.