The Kennedy Center Honors Zubin Mehta - 2006
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- The Kennedy Center Honors Zubin Mehta - 2006 - Featuring Kreisler's Liebesfreud by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
While Zubin Mehta was still in his teens, his teacher, the venerable Hans Swarowsky, called him "a born conductor." Years later in 1981, the year Mehta was named Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Harold C. Schonberg wrote in The New York Times that "his beat must be an orchestra player's delight. It is almost textbook in its motions, moving in fairly large arcs in an unfussy manner…. There is something Toscaninian in Mr. Mehta's beat." And yet there always has been something more than the control of even the great Toscanini in Mehta's conducting. Mehta's passion on the podium is all his own. His musical integrity is legend, and his love of freedom is as great as his love of music. "It is not politics," Mehta has said, "it is humanity. I don't campaign for anybody." He makes sublime music for everybody, often carrying it where it is most needed: from the ruins of the Bosnian National Library in war-torn Sarajevo to Tel Aviv during the Gulf War, in Moscow's Gorky Park during the twilight of the Soviet era, in India with his Israeli musicians breaking a decades-long absence of cultural dialogue and diplomatic ties. In 1999, Mehta's passion brought together for the first time the Israel Philharmonic and the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra for a historic performance of Mahler's Resurrection Symphony No. 2 in what had been a concentration camp in Weimar. Mehta has spread the sheer sensual joy of great music from American coast to coast at the helm of the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and also at festival time in Florence, and through season after glorious season in his home theater in Munich. Mehta led the Three Tenors Concerts in Rome and Los Angeles. Together with his friends and fellow soccer fans José Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, he created the most wildly sensational classical music success story of our time. Always a showman but also indefatigably a servant of the score, Mehta has a rich and growing discography that attests to the breadth of his musical genius. While Zubin Mehta, who is Parsee by heritage and Indian by birth, currently resides in Los Angeles, he was born in Bombay-now called Mumbai-in 1936. He grew up in a time of national strife, of India's hard-won independence but also of the painful partition and birth of Pakistan, of Gandhi's assassination and its aftermath, a time of fragile peace. He received his musical early education from his father Mehli Mehta, violinist and co-founder of the Bombay Symphony Orchestra and later music director of the American Youth Symphony in Los Angeles. His younger brother Zarin Mehta is today executive director of the New York Philharmonic. Neither Zarin nor Zubin set out originally for careers in music, however, and young Zubin in fact began training in medicine. After only two s esters ofemedical school, Zubin Mehta launched into music in earnest, studying conducting with Swarowsky at the Music Academy in Vienna. Zubin Mehta won the Liverpool International Conducting Competition in 1958, shortly afterwards also winning the Koussevitzky Competition in Tanglewood. By his mid-20s, Mehta already had conducted both the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic. His rise in the music world was swift. Zubin Mehta was music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961 to 1967. In 1962 he became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, a position he held until 1978 and a relation he still holds dear: in 2006, after a Philharmonic concert in the new Disney Hall where Mehta received a special award from the city of Los Angeles, Mark Swed wrote in the Los Angeles Times that "something strong and evidently indestructible runs deep between him and this community." - บันเทิง
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This was lovely, I'm glad I got to see it. I'm an admirer of Zubin Mehta and Itzhak Perlman. Perlman is the menschest of mensches!
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What a beautiful speech.
Great class, nothing to add.
Beautiful
Zubin Mehta is the third Indian artist after Tagore and Satyajit Ray who has made Indians like me feel proud and I can also say that I have met both Mehta and Ray parsonally❤
'Third Indian artist'...typical Indian (mis)appropriation of what is, and never was, theirs. It's PARSI (as in 'of Iranian heritage').
'Third Indian artist'...Typical Indian (mis)appropriation of what is not, and never was, theirs. It's PARSI (as in 'of Iranian heritage'.
Thank you for posting this video. Excellent!
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Zubin Mehta is, famously, manufactured in the secret Zubin Mehta factory at the north pole.