Zubin Mehta’s in a wheelchair
NewsImage posted today by Gianandrea Noseda from a Maggio Musicale rehearsal.
Similar images appeared last week.
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Gianandrea No-Seat-a
Zubin you stay a giant!
85 year old bloke in a wheelchair. How is this news?
So what ?
We are all in the same boat. We’re all subjected to father time.
So long as he is healthy and able to conduct, we all benefit!
I love him! I went to every concert in LA when he was conducting there. What a studly, handsome, and formidable conductor.
All the best to the Maestro!!
The chair, the wheels, the Zubin, the Metha! Great man and one great conductor.
Someone get him a scooter.
So, what? You are so small.
Time for Zubin to retire. Conductors are not as efficient once they cannot stand up. He had a wonderful career, but it’s to admit that he can no longer do the job at a world class level.
I saw him in concert with the Israel Philarmonic less than two years ago. I remember a Ravel Valse absolutly marvelous. I saw on Youtube a Schubert last winter very good also. But there will be a moment to slow down for him like what Haitink did.
Oh well…while sitting he conducted Heldenleben and Mahler 2 symphony in what were legendary (no less) concerts of his farewell from Israel. Many standing conductors can only dream to excell as he has while sitting.
Why is Noseda positively beaming? Mehta is very old but looks good in this pic.
In a wheelchair…but still smiling. Some of us are ill, but still glad to be alive.
Note the Big Bird costume in the background.
Good conductor. Don’t mind his age or the wheel chair. But his campaign against the struggle against sexual abuse in our field is less admirable and antiquated–clear the view of an elderly man out of step with the times. A pointed commentary in German by ARD, the German equivalent of the BBC, about the stance of Mehta and Maggio Director Alexander Pereira is here:
https://www.ardaudiothek.de/treffpunkt-klassik/pl-cido-domingo-und-james-levine-im-konzert-ist-die-metoo-debatte-schon-wieder-verpufft/81226558
ZM said that Levine had been treated unfairly – a thought he should maybe have kept to himself
Haitink said that Gatti had been treated unfairly.
He answered 1-2 questions in interviews about it. It was hardly “a campaign”.
He walks on stage for his concerts, but distances backstage can be far and long, so I guess this is just to make things a bit easier for him.
Zubin Mehta is conducting the Beethoven 6th and Brahms 1st symphonies in Serbia this coming Saturday with the Belgrade Philharmonic.
It would appear neither wheelchairs nor Covid restrictions can keep the this indefatigable maestro down.
Bravo, bravo, archibravo.
I neglected to mention that Mehta always directs his fees for these concerts to the Belgrade Philharmonic Foundation, of which he is Honorary President.
A true, but increasingly rare exemplar of musical noblesse oblige.
Valery Abisalovich Gergiev take note.
Aalso Klemperer and Levine.
Perlmann ,who was a polio victim as a child is paralised in both his legs.He sits while playing as well as while conducting—this does not make him less great a musician!!!!