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...Thanks for the great cover story on our young maestro, Zubin Mehta [Jan. 19]. His musical leadership has brought a new breath of life into the culture of our community. May "Zubi Baby" stay among us a long, long time. We need...
...Standing on his accomplishments, Zubin Mehta may truly be regarded as one of this country's leading conductors. However, his "unabashed immodesty" and his exceedingly high opinion of himself may eventually reveal this bright young star from the East to be the mere twinkle in the eye of a pompous...
Such chutzpah sometimes gets Mehta into trouble, or the glare of publicity, or both. In Israel, he created a tempest in a tea glass when he tried-unsuccessfully-to get the Israel Philharmonic to do a piece by Richard Wagner, whose music was so enthusiastically embraced by the Nazis that it still disturbs many Jews. In Italy, he flustered musical circles by picketing La Scala with musicians who were protesting a cut in state subsidies for opera. A few weeks ago, he outraged the New York musical establishment by vehemently rejecting any possibility that he might become Leonard Bernstein...
...understandable that officials of the musicians' union should "request" his presence for an explanation. Mehta disarmingly assured both the union and a committee of Philharmonic musicians that he never meant to insult or degrade the musicians-who, after all, are his colleagues-and he promised to say as much in a letter for the Philharmonic bulletin board...
Headlong & Footloose. Even allowing for his impulsiveness and his pride in his own musicians, Mehta's outburst about Bernstein's job acutely highlighted a common attitude among the new young conductors. They are quite rightly dubious about some of the prestigious podiums that may soon be offered to them. Chary