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Biography of Zubin MehtaName: Zubin MehtaBirth Date: April 29, 1936 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Bombay, India Nationality: Indian Gender: Male Occupations: conductor/music director Zubin Mehta A native of India, Zubin Mehta (born 1936) was the conductor and director of both the New York and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestras. He made his Metropolitan Opera debut on December 29, 1965, with a highly acclaimed performance of Aida."Born to the baton" aptly describes the extraordinary career of Zubin Mehta. Maestro Mehta has served as music director of the New York Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Montreal Symphony, and the Israel Philharmonic, to name a few.Born April 29, 1936 in Bombay, India, Zubin Mehta grew up in a home filled with music. His father was a co-founder of the Bombay Symphony, and the young Mehta heard chamber music and Beethoven quartets before he heard a symphony. He learned to sing what he heard before he could read music. At the age of sixteen, Mehta began conducting concerto accompaniments, leading the orchestra when his father was away on concert tours. At …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…Roosevelt was president of the United StatesBruno Hauptmann was executed for the murder of the Charles Lindbergh babyCivil War erupted in SpainMargaret Mitchell published Gone with the WindThe times:1939-1945: World War II1991: Persian Gulf War1992-1996: Civil war in BosniaMehta's contemporaries:Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) American composer and conductorLeontyne Price (1927-) American opera singerDalai Lama (1935-) Tibetan spiritual leaderJim Brown (1936-) American football playerVaclav Havel (1936-) Czech playwright and politicianSelected world events:1941: German incendiary bombs destroyed Queen's Hall in London1946: RCA-Victor issued the first vinylite phonograph record1953: Queen Elizabeth II of England was crowned1963: The Beatles scored their first big success with "I Want to Hold Your Hand"1976: Philip Glass's opera Einstein on the Beach makes its American premier in New York1987: Palestinians began an uprising against Israel Further Reading Bookspan, Martin, and Ross Yockey, Zubin: The Zubin Mehta Story, Harper & Row, 1978.Los Angeles Times, February, 5, 1991.New York, Januray 14, 1985; June 10, 1991.New York Times,November 11, 1978.Newsweek, December 12, 1978. |