Zubin Mehta: We hurt some inadvertently, next concert will be for all

[Chanakya's_Chant]

Zubin Mehta in Srinagar: We hurt some inadvertently, next concert will be for all​

Srinagar: Zubin Mehta's highly anticipated peace concert started in Srinagar's Shalimar Bagh amid heavy security. Called Ehsaas-e-Kashmir, the event, a first of its kind in Kashmir, has been organised by German ambassador to India Michael Steiner.

Soulful strains of some of the most popular and best-known western classical music compositions reverberated in the majestic backdrop of Zabarwan Hills when the famous conductor performed before a select audience on the banks of the famous Dal Lake.

"I have waited for this moment for a long time. There are those we have hurt inadvertently. I promise next time we shall do this with everyone in a stadium where everyone can come, so it won't be a select few. When the music starts, a positive wave goes from this stage everywhere," 77-year-old Mr Mehta said before his performance.

In the 400-year-old Mughal garden with its magnificent chinars, some as old as 300 years and more, Mr Mehta and his Bavarian State Orchestra played its full cast of works of Ludwig Van Beethoven, Franz Joseph Haydn and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

The concert began with the India-born maestro leading the orchestra along with Abhay Sopori's troupe with traditional Kashmiri instruments.

The concert hit a controversial note with Kashmiri separatists calling it an attempt to digress from the human rights violations in the state. The separatists held a total shutdown of Srinagar in protest.

Reaching out to the separatists yesterday, Mr Mehta said, "I didn't choose Kashmir, Kashmir chose me. Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace."

A counter concert, called Haqeeqat-e-Kashmir to highlight, what its organisers say, the turmoil of the people over the last two decades, is also being held, 10 km away from the Zubin Mehta concert.

Source:- Zubin Mehta in Srinagar: We hurt some inadvertently, next concert will be for all | NDTV.com

 

[kurup]

Talked like a true artists . Respect for Zubin Mehta ....

 

[Menace2Society]

Doesn't matter what songs you play to charm the Kashmiri mothers have been raped through multiple generation and countless of their children killed and abducted.

They will never forget, and nor shall we.

 

[kurup]

Doesn't matter what songs you play to charm the Kashmiri mothers have been raped through multiple generation and countless of their children killed and abducted.

They will never forget, and nor shall we.

True , they will never forget the terrorist coming from pakistan raping them , killing innocent civilians .

They will never forget, and nor shall we.

 

[manlion]

4 civilian shot dead by the occupying India army in Shopian

 

[Tshering22]

4 civilian shot dead by the occupying India army in Shopian

Says the People's Daily?

Doesn't matter what songs you play to charm the Kashmiri mothers have been raped through multiple generation and countless of their children killed and abducted.

If they are against the country, then we will make them forget.

They will never forget, and nor shall we.

Like we care.

 

[Echo_419]

Doesn't matter what songs you play to charm the Kashmiri mothers have been raped through multiple generation and countless of their children killed and abducted.

They will never forget, and nor shall we.

My Bottom will rule Kashmir before you Pakistanis do

 

[Parul]

Such 'Sound of Music' should be everywhere in India

 

[Fireurimagination]

He's a great artist pity that due to separatist fools common Kashmiris couldn't enjoy the concert..whatever there is always the next time

 

[Parul]

Mr Mehta and his team deserve great accolades from all music lovers for such a melodious feat in Kasmir. J&K too deserve pat on their back for conducting the same in peaceful manner in spite of threats from local marauders.