  A fast restoration of chiral symmetry in excited mesons is demonstrated. A
minimal "realistic" chirally symmetric confining model is used, where the only
interaction between quarks is the linear instantaneous Lorentz-vector confining
potential. Chiral symmetry breaking is generated via the nonperturbative
resummation of valence quarks self-energy loops and the meson bound states are
obtained from the Bethe-Salpeter equation. The excited mesons fall into
approximate chiral multiplets and lie on the approximately linear radial and
angular Regge trajectories, though a significant deviation from the linearity
of the angular trajectory is observed.
