Music maestro Zubin Mehta performs in Kashmir

Music maestro Zubin Mehta directed the Bavarian State Orchestra today (September 7, 2013) at the concert Ehsaas-e-Kashmir, held in Shalimar Bagh, Srinagar. (Photo courtesy: DD National)

Zubin Mehta addressed the audience before the concert and said that the next time he would want to perform for free for the public in a stadium and not for select few. (Photo courtesy: DD National)

The Bavarian State Orchestra performed a fusion with Kashmiri instruments composed by Abhay Sopory and conducted by Zubin Mehta, at the beginning of the main show. (Photo courtesy: DD National)

The first item performed by the orchestra was a Beethoven number. (Photo courtesy: DD National)

There is heavy security in and around Srinagar as separatist leaders called for a general strike against the concert.(Photo courtesy: DD National)

We caught a tiny glimpse of the orchestra waiting to take the stage before the concert.