Conductor Zubin Mehta Gets Star On Walk Of Fame
HOLLYWOOD (CBS) — Zubin Mehta will receive the 2,434st star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame Tuesday, coinciding with his 50th anniversary as a conductor.
Tuesday's ceremony coincides with Mehta conducting the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in a concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall that night. Haydn's Symphony No. 96 and Mahler's Symphony No. 5 are on the bill.
Mehta is best remembered by Southern Californians for his 1962-1978 stint as the music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Mehta was the music director of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra from 1961-67 and held the same post with the New York Philharmonic from 1978-1991, holding the post longer than anyone else.
Mehta was named music adviser to the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra in 1969, its music director in 1977 and as its music director for life in 1981.
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