Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Friday, Apr 08, 2005
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Friday, Apr 08, 2005 |
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Music & Dance Zubin Mehta concert begins today in Mumbai Our Bureau
Zubin Mehta with cellist Mstislav Rostropovich at a press conference in Mumbai on Thursday. — Shashi Ashiwal
Mumbai , April 7 ZUBIN Mehta will conduct three concerts in the city over Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Accompanying him is The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra from Florence. Among those scheduled to play are the renowned cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and violinist Julian Rachlin. The Mehli Mehta Music Foundation, set up to honour Zubin Mehta's father, is presenting the concerts. In 1935, Mehli Mehta had founded the Bombay Symphony Orchestra. The greater part of his musical life was spent in Los Angeles, where he was director of the Orchestra Department of UCLA and conducted the American Youth Orchestra for 33 seasons. At a press briefing, Zubin Mehta said it was Rostropovich who came up with the idea of the proposed concerts. It is hoped that the funds raised from the concerts would eventually help the Mehli Mehta Music Foundation become a more structured music school. While the proceeds from the concerts of Friday and Saturday would be used by the foundation for the benefit of music in Mumbai, receipts from Sunday's performance would go towards tsunami relief. The latter effort would be augmented by a charity dinner hosted by the Taj Mahal hotel.
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