Zubin Mehta: The Score of My Life
In this book, Mehta tells us his storyfrom growing up in India, a member of the minority Parsi religious group, to his musical education in Vienna to his growing career as a world-reknowned conductor. For the most part the story is very well-told. I felt as if I were sitting with Mehta and listening to him tell me his story out loud. I would not say that he rambles, but one story leads to another the way stories often do when you're just sitting around chatting with your friends. It makes me wonder if he wrote this autobiography by hand or recorded his thoughts verbally and then transcribed them to written form. The feel of the book has me strongly favoring the latter.
Although I have long been a min
Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta was born in in Bombay and received his first musical education under his father’s Mehli Mehta’s guidance who was a noted concert violinist and the founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. After a short period of pre-medical studies in Bombay, he left for Vienna in where he eventually entered the conducting programme under Hans Swarowsky at the Akademie für Musik. Zubin Mehta won the Liverpool International Conducting Competition in and was also a prize-winner of the summer academy at Tanglewood. By he had already conducted the Vienna, Berlin and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras and has recently celebrated 50 years of musical collaboration with all three ensembles.
Zubin Mehta was Music Director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from to and also assumed the Music Directorship of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in , a post he retained until
In October he celebrated his farewell with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra to which he has served for 50 years. On this occasion he was named Music Director Emeritus of the IPO.
In he took over the post as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic commencing a tenure lasting 13 years, the longest in
Zubin Mehta
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Known for his flamboyant and passionate style of conducting, Zubin Mehta, the Musical Director of the New York and the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestras has performed with orchestras all over the world. His operatic work has taken him to the Metropolitan Opera, The Royal Opera House, Florence and Munich Festivals. His many honours include the Padma Bhushan, India's highest cultural award.
Background
Zubin Mehta was born in in Bombay and received his first musical education under his father’s Mehli Mehta’s guidance who was a noted concert violinist and the founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. Mehta initially intended to study medicine, but eventually became a music student in Vienna at the age of 18, under Hans Swarowsky. Zubin Mehta made his debut as an opera conductor with Tosca in Montreal in Mehta's first marriage was to canadian soprano Carmen Lasky in They have a son, Mervon and a daughter, Zarina. In , they divorced. In July , Mehta married Nancy Kovack, a former American film and television actress. Mehta, a permanent resident of the United States, retains his Indian citizenship.
Education
Wh
Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta left the sheltered environs of his parental home in Bombay in , as an eighteen year old, and moved to Vienna into the very unique culture of the Music Academy, where he studied under illustrious teachers such as Hans Swarowsky. Just seven years later, he conducted the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras and became the director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra at the age of twenty-five. Further assignments included Los Angeles, New York, Florence , Tel Aviv, and eventually, Munich, where he worked as general music director of the Bavarian State Opera from to Zubin Mehta is one of the most celebrated conductors in the world. He has worked with all the top-class international orchestras and with excellent instrumentalists and opera stars of the past many decades. Musicians such as Daniel Barenboim, Claudio Abbado, Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman count among his intimate friends. Despite his tremendous success, this popular Indian with a zest for life still remains a restless spirit - a wanderer between the worlds, who is as famous for his commitment to Israel as for his musical openness to everything from open-air concerts to operas. His ex
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