Written by Suanshu Khurana |Updated: October 23, 2019 7:54:04 am
A look at Zubin Mehta’s life
On Sunday, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra’s ‘music director for life’, Zubin Mehta, retired after 50 years. A look at the maestro’s life
On Sunday, the famed Bronfman Auditorium, the largest concert hall in Tel Aviv and home to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, resonated with one of Gustav Mahler’s most popular and successful works — Symphony Number 2 — better-known as Resurrection. The five-movement symphony talks about the beauty of afterlife. It opens with a symphonic poem called Funeral Rites, asks questions about life after death and goes on to remember the joyous times that life offered, their significance and concludes with an intense hope for an eternal regeneration, a sort of rebirth after death has been dealt with. Ace music maestro, 83-year-old Zubin Mehta, chose Mahler’s legendary and large work to take his final bow after a 50-year stint with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, which bid goodbye to its “music director for life”. It was apt as Mehta’s retirement is unlikely to make sense quickly. Even to him, we are sure
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