{"id":51364,"date":"2019-10-23T01:51:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T07:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=51364"},"modified":"2019-10-23T01:51:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T07:51:07","slug":"zubin-mehta-conducts-israel-philharmonic-orchestra-for-final-time-as-music-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/zubin-mehta-conducts-israel-philharmonic-orchestra-for-final-time-as-music-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Zubin Mehta conducts Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for final time as music director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (JTA) \u2014 Conductor Zubin Mehta conducted the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra for the final time as its musical director.<\/p>\n<p>Mehta, 83, performed with the Orchestra on Sunday evening in Tel Aviv and was honored with an extended standing ovation. Members of the orchestra threw flowers on the conductor and his wife at the end of the concert.<\/p>\n<p>The final performance included Liszt\u2019s Piano Concerto No. 2 and Mahler\u2019s Symphony No. 2.<\/p>\n<p>He will be succeeded by Lahav Shani, 30. Shani and pianist Yefim Bronfman appeared on-stage on Sunday night and performed a duet.<\/p>\n<p>Mehta, who announced in 2016 that he would retire at the end of this season, was named the orchestra\u2019s musical director emeritus. He was named the orchestra\u2019s music advisor in 1969 and its music director in 1977. He became its music director for life in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1962 to 1978 and was music director of the New York Philharmonic from 1978 to 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Mehta was born in Bombay, India. His father, Mehli Mehta, was the founder of the Bombay Symphony.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Zubin%20Mehta%20conducts%20Israel%20Philharmonic%20Orchestra%20for%20final%20time%20as%20music%20director\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,7137],"tags":[951,8790,8795,8788,952],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51365,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51364\/revisions\/51365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}