Zubin Mehta
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Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of Western classical music. He is music director emeritus of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor emeritus of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Mehta in 1985
Mehta with Isaac Stern at Lincoln Center, 1980
Mehta conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in Mumbai, October 2008
Mehta in 2010
Parsis
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The Parsis or Parsees are a Zoroastrian ethnic group in the Indian subcontinent. They are descended from Persian refugees who migrated to the Indian subcontinent during and after the Arab-Islamic conq
Zubin Mehta
…Imperial Family with the Praemium Imperiale. In 2016, Mehta was appointed honorary conductor of the Teatro San Carlo, Naples. Mehta was born into a Parsi family in Bombay (now Mumbai), India, during the British Raj, the older son of Mehli (1908–2002) and Tehmina (Daruvala) Mehta. His native language is…
A Parsi Lady (c. 1928) Mahadev V. Dhurandhar
Parsis from India, c. 1870
Wedding portrait, 1948
Parsi Navjote ceremony (rites of admission into the Zoroastrian faith)