It’s a marvellous thing that the great Indian conductor Zubin Mehta will be wielding the baton for that illustrious group the Australian World Orchestra at Melbourne’s Hamer Hall on 31 August and on 2 September at the Concert Hall of the Opera House. The performance will be of the Tone Poems of Richard Strauss, those thundering and crescendoing pieces that make such a histrionic claim to fame and that seems appropriate given that Zubin Mehta who has done everything was the wunderkind of all wunderkinds, the stripling who became the principal conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic when he was...