Category: Music

Renowned choreographer Marzi Pestonji went down the memory lane and recalled his journey on how he bagged the opportunity to be a background dancer in ‘Dil Toh Pagal Hai’. Master Marzi, who is also fondly known as ‘Udi Baba’ will grace the stage of dance reality show ‘India’s Best Dancer 3’, for their upcoming romance… Continue reading Marzi Pestonji recalls his days as background dancer in SRK’s ‘Dil Toh Pagal Hai’

Zubin Mehta, the globally-acclaimed Parsi conductor from Mumbai, Music Director Emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO) and Conductor Emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, is all set to flick that baton again in India. Mehta will be leading the Symphony Orchestra of India (SOI), with a strength of over 90 musicians, on August 19… Continue reading Zubin Mehta to Conduct SOI in Mumbai in August 2023

Musician Navzad Dabu provided late-night commuters in NYC’s Metropolitan Avenue / Grand Street subway station with a phenomenal private performance. His graveyard shift concert included back-to-back covers of a dozen Radiohead tracks. We would have stood there for the whole show and missed our train. My name is Navzad Dabu. While living in Bushwick this… Continue reading Navzad Dabu: A NYC Subway Concert of Radiohead Covers

Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji was born Leon Dudley in Essex, England. He was an English composer with a mixed race background, born to a Parsi father and an English mother said to have been of Spanish and Sicilian descent. Sorabji decided to change his name to connect more with his Parsi heritage. He developed his musical… Continue reading Composer Profile: Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

The legendary conductor Maestro Zubin Mehta has been awarded an Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia (AC), in recognition of his eminent service to the Australia-India bilateral relationship and humanity-at-large, particularly in the fields of classical music and philanthropy. The award was presented to Maestro Mehta onstage by the Governor General of Australia, General… Continue reading Maestro Zubin Mehta awarded Companion of the Order of Australia

It’s a marvellous thing that the great Indian conductor Zubin Mehta will be wielding the baton for that illustrious group the Australian World Orchestra at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall on 31 August and on 2 September at the Concert Hall of the Opera House. The performance will be of the Tone Poems of Richard Strauss, those… Continue reading Don’t be routine: Zubin Mehta

As he returns to the Proms podium at 86, the conductor discusses politics, passions, and why he has long avoided Elgar’s Cello Concerto Article By Ivan Hewett, | The Telegraph UK Zubin Mehta before a concert with the Belgrade Philharmonic last year CREDIT: Shutterstock For more than 60 years, Zubin Mehta has been at the… Continue reading Zubin Mehta interview: ‘Sometimes I have had to be tyrannical’