“Settling scores”

In her column "Inside Track” in the Sunday edition of The Indian Express of November 8, 2015 senior journalist Coomi Kapoor writes about Zubin Mehta’s recent visit to Delhi. The item, titled "Settling scores” reads:
"At the release of the paperback of his autobiography, The Score of My Life, in Delhi last week, conductor Zubin Mehta recounted an interesting anecdote on how former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger once got even with him for interfering with his arrangements.

Zubin Mehta (left), and Dr Henry Kissinger

"Mehta was to inaugurate a United Nations General Assembly session with a concert. The conductor always insists on a rehearsal before the actual performance. Unfortunately, the day the rehearsal was scheduled, the then US president Richard Nixon was to deliver a speech at the UN. Since he happened to meet Nixon at a dinner, Mehta mentioned his difficulty to the US president who spoke to Kissinger and asked him to change the date of his speech.
"Kissinger was unhappy and warned Mehta that he would settle scores with him. On the night of the concert, Kissinger organized a dinner thrown by Nixon for all visiting heads of state who had come to New York. Consequently, they all missed the Mehta concert. Even then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had to write to Mehta expressing her regrets.”