Watch: The moment Zubin returns

Steve de Mena says:

October 5, 2018 at 12:10 pm

This is his return to the Israel Philharmonic, not his return to conducting, which happened about a month ago with his Italian orchestra. There’s a video of that too, and another cake.
Happy to see him back.

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avi says:

October 5, 2018 at 4:57 pm

40 years or whatever together – so much talk and special concerts that celebrate this deep connection of Zubin and… the truth of the matter that no one will ever choose to hear any record of this special combo. You might hear the orchestra, if at all, when Lenny is the conductor. Besides Israel is so small, and yet they never care to reach any audience except 1000-2, 000 people at most, which are also moderate to great contributors…they had a program which was a great success. It was called the philharmonia in jeans- well, the same people came, some with jeans.

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THOMAS GOSSARD says:

October 5, 2018 at 5:05 pm

Too bad the full (I presume) rehearsal isn’t included in the video.

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Keith Miller says:

October 5, 2018 at 6:49 pm

I guess I was absent when the memo went out. What happened to Maestro Mehta? Was he ill?

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Steve de Mena says:

October 5, 2018 at 6:51 pm

He had shoulder surgery 8-9 months ago and the projected 3 month recovery took longer than expected.

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- SWYANESS says:
  
  October 5, 2018 at 7:50 pm
  
  Look at Norman’s post from October 4th.
  
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- Tim W says:
  
  October 5, 2018 at 9:17 pm
  
  He had treatment for a tumor that was removed. He had chemotherapy. Doctors in LA deemed him cured.
  
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- M2N2K says:
  
  October 6, 2018 at 2:39 am
  
  Unfortunately it was more than just a “shoulder surgery”: see http://slippedisc.com/2018/10/zubin-mehta-has-finished-chemo/ . One can only hope that the doctors are correct in their optimistic assessment.
  
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