Zubin Mehta
Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor, born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1936. He was music director of the Montreal Symphony from 1961 to 1967 and of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1962 to 1978, then led the New York Philharmonic from 1978 to 1991. His bond with the Israel Philharmonic lasted about fifty years, and he stepped down as its music director in October 2019, when the orchestra named him music director emeritus.
Symphony No. 1 / Overture To "As You Like It"
John Knowles Paine's Symphony No. 1 is a milestone in the development of American music. It was not the first symphony written by an American (George Frederick Bristow, for many years a violinist in the New York Philharmonic, had already written seve…
Symphony No. 2
The premieres of John Knowles Paine's two symphonies－the First in 1876, the Second in 1880－may be said to mark the effective beginning of the American symphonic tradition. American composer George W. Chadwick, who had been a young man in Boston in th…
Concerto For Oboe And Orchestra / Prism
George Rochberg seems an unlikely revolutionary, yet it was he, more than anyone else, who dealt the crushing blow to serialist orthodoxy. A student of Gian Carlo Menotti at the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, Rochberg began as a modern mainstream …
Concerto For Clarinet And Orchestra / Third Essay For Orchestra, Opus 47
The Third Essay was Samuel Barber's last completed work and its drama and lyricism are entirely characteristic of the neo-Romantic style he composed in for his entire life, a style which won him a large and faithful audience. In his avowed concern f…