| Abstract |
Zubin Metha has created a body of work with the world's greatest orchestras, including the Vienna, Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York Philharmonics. In the course of his career he has gained the highest approbation in the international community: an honorary member of the Vienna State Opera and honorary conductor of the Vienna, Munich, and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the Bavarian State Orchestra and Opera, and the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, he is also a recipient of the United Naions Lifetime Achievement Peace and Tolerance Award. And in this book he takes us with him along the road that brought him to the heights of success. This book is a frank and direct account of Mehta's entire musical life. From his childhood days in Bombay, where he received his first musical education from his father, Mehli Mehta, and his journey at the tender age of 18 to Vienna to study music, on through his entire professional career, he shares with us an insider's view. We also learn everything about the "private" Zubin Mehta--about his marriages, his children, his thoughts on music and politics, especially in Israel, where he is lifetime Music Director of the Israel Philharmonic. |
