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Back of the book Zubin Mehta — The Score
Of My Life
Zubin Mehta is one of the most celebrated conductors of the world. He has worked with all top class international orchestras and with excellent instrumentalists and opera stars of the past many decades. Musicians like 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 exciting life makes for a gripping autobiography.
A rare collection of essays that invites the reader to revisit a vanished era of sahibs and memsahibs. From Lord Mountbatten to Peggy Holroyde to Maurice and Taya Zinkin, Britishers who lived and worked in India reminisce about topics and points of interest as varied as the Indian Civil Service and the Roshanara Club, shikar and hazri, the Amateur Cine Society of India and Doon School, Rudyard Kipling and Mahatma Gandhi. Selected from a series of
articles commissioned by Khuswant Singh when he was the Editorof The
Illustrated Weekly of India, these delightfully individualistic and
refreshingly candid writings reveal a fascinating array of British
attitudes, experiences, observations, fond memories, the occasional
short-lived grouse and, above all, a deep and abiding affection and
respect for India.
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ZUBIN
Mehta left the sheltered environs of his parental home in Bombay in
1954, as an 18-year-old, and moved to Vienna into the very unique
culture of the Music Academy where he studied under illustrious teachers
like 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 25. Further assignments included Los
Angeles, New York, Florence, Tel Aviv, and eventually, Munich where he
was working as general music director of the Bavarian State Opera from
1998 to 2006.
Sahibs
Who Loved India