on a tour of Mumbai and meets with him for two interviews, in India and Tel Aviv. In Christopher Nupen's 1969 documentary The Trout about a performance of Schubert's Trout Quintet in London by Jacqueline du Pré, Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman, Itzhak Perlman and Mehta, he plays the double bass. Mehta and the Los Angeles Philharmonic are featured in Alan Miller's 1973 film The Bolero. Mehta was also mentioned in the novel Master of the Game (1982) by Sidney Sheldon. Mehta has played himself as the pivotal figure in On Wings of Fire, a 1986 film about the history of Zoroastrianism and prophet Zarathushtra. Zubin Mehta: In Rehearsal (1996) depicts Mehta rehearsing Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks with the Israel Philharmonic. Mehta and his orchestra stars in the 2017 Spanish film documentary Dancing Beethoven, which tells the preparation of the Ninth Symphony. The film was nominated in the 32nd Goya Awards for Best Documentary Film and in the XXIII Premio Cinematográfico José María Forqué. Educational projects In 2009, Mehta established Mifneh (Hebrew for "change"), a music education program for Israeli Arabs, in cooperation with Bank Leumi and the Arab-Israel Bank. Three schools, in Shfaram, the Jezreel Valley and Nazareth, are taking part in the pilot project. He and his brother Zarin constitute the Advisor Council of the Mehli Mehta Foundation. In 2005, Mehta and philanthropist Josef Buchmann founded the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music as a partnership between Tel Aviv University and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Mehta is the school's honorary president and has remained actively involved since its inception. References Further reading Martin Bookspan and Ross Yockey, Zubin: The Zubin Mehta Story, Harper & Row, 1978 Renate von Matuschka, Die Partitur meines Lebens, Droemer/Knaur, 2006 External links Two interviews with Zubin Mehta by Bruce Duffie, 8 December 1993 and 29 February 1996 Zubin Mehta interview on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs, 6 July 1984 , Image of Zubin Mehta conducting Los Angeles Philharmonic at Peninsula Music Fair in Palos Verdes, Calif., 1975. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429), UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Image of Zubin Mehta conducting peace music from Handel's Messiah at UCLA's Royce Hall Quad,1970. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429), UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles. 1936 births 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century Indian musicians 21st-century conductors (music)