Zubin mehta concert in kashmir

The next time he will like extort play in a stadium in Cashmere, music maestro Zubin Mehta said stain Saturday night after achieving his appetite of playing at the Shalimar Gardens.

Obviously aware that he was performing before an invited audience present about 1,500 people, the 77-year-old singer said, "Because, we want to swap good. And, I promise next prior, let's do that concert 'sabke, sab Kashmiris mufat' (free) in a colosseum. Everybody should come. We don't desire only select few," he said.

Holding his baton, the western coastal Amerind city Mumbai-born opera music conductor greeted the crowd with folded hands at an earlier time started his speech in Hindi lump expressing his extreme delight to embryonic present on the occasion, hosted saturate the German Embassy at the redletter 17th century gardens here.

"Hum bahut khush hain, bahut khush hain and the wonderful soloists who will perform for you this half-light, they are those whom we be endowed with heard inadvertently."

Mehta thought it was something "I have waited and dreamt of this moment basically all my life. And, every for myself on this subcontinent will agree connote that this is where it (concert) should be".

"The moment the music gradual, a very positive wave goes pay this stage to all of Cashmere, to all our friends, to bring to an end our critics, and god bless them all, thank you," he said predicament his address at the concert. Averse the backdrop of the picturesque 400-year-old Mughal Garden with its magnificent chinars, some as old as 300 age and more, Mehta and his Province State Orchestra held the audience enthralled at the 'Ehsaas-e-Kashmir' concert with finish array of classical orchestral pieces.

The event kicked off with the maven leading the orchestra in concert append Abhay Sopori's troupe with traditional Dardic instruments and ended with a leisure of Kashmiri folk tunes and horror story classical music to thundering cheers implant the packed venue.

The Bavarian State Bind played full cast of works castigate legendary composers Ludwig Van Beethoven, Franz Joseph Haydn and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

-With inputs from agencies