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Beethoven: The Five Piano Concertos; Six Bagatelles, Op. 126; Andante Favori; "Fur Elise." Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano, with Zubin Mehta conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; London, 4 CDs. Despite its familiarity, the cycle of Beethoven concertos remains a severe test of mettle for pianists, as well as a handy yardstick for audiences with which to measure them. From the idiosyncratic classicism of the Second, which was the first in order of composition, to the incipient romanticism of the Emperor, the last, is a span of some 20 years but the musical journey of a lifetime...
...York, a significant number of 1 those involved brought firsthand expertise to the assignment. Senior Writer William Smith, who wrote the main story, served as New Delhi bureau chief in 1975 and '76. Smith was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Naushad Mehta, who was born and reared in Bombay...
...agitated for a system of conservative dictatorship far removed from the intellectual socialism of his elders. Associated with a group of young toughs and regarded in some quarters as a lawless power broker, Sanjay hung around his doting mother like a dark and menacing shadow. As Indian Essayist Ved Mehta wrote in A Family Affair, "Rightly or wrongly, Sanjay was seen as representing the ruthless side of his mother...
Alas, even the maestro could not keep harmony among his dissonant musicians. Zubin Mehta, 48, the Bombay-born conductor of the New York Philharmonic, had returned to his native land after an absence of 17 years. In New Delhi, the eleventh stop of the orchestra's eight-nation Asian tour, all seemed fine as two elephants tromboned a welcome, but then his musicians began raising a cacophony of complaints about the hotel accommodations. "Unbearable," screeched a violinist. "There are bugs in the bed," one musician whined. "And cockroaches," chimed in another. Mehta quieted the sour-note chorus by allowing...
...Vatsala Mehta...