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Bizarre Court Case Puts a Violinist, and Leipzig String Quartet, in an Unflattering Light
The New York Times ^
| 12 June 2015
| Michael Cooper
Posted on 06/12/2015 11:46:32 AM PDT by Theoria
The violinist Stefan Arzberger had planned to play the music of Beethoven, Haydn and Mendelssohn with his colleagues in the Leipzig String Quartet later this month at Wigmore Hall in London, where he fondly recalls once sipping sherry with patrons after a concert.
Instead he finds himself facing a charge of attempted murder in New York City, accused of barging naked into the room of a 64-year-old woman at a Midtown hotel he was staying in while on tour this spring and trying to strangle her. His defense is hardly less lurid: His lawyers say he was drugged by a prostitute he had brought to his room earlier that night.
In his first extended English-language interview since his arrest, Mr. Arzberger who has received support from a number of musicians, including Kurt Masur, the former music director of the New York Philharmonic, who conducted him in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra said he did not remember what happened in the early morning hours of March 27, when the attack took place, according to a criminal complaint.
I spend my time now investigating what happened that night, to find out because I have no memories, Mr. Arzberger, 42, who is out on $100,000 bail, said the other day over lunch. This is something I never had in my life, something like this. No memories at all.
Now, he faces criminal charges of attempted murder, burglary, strangulation and assault, and a civil suit from the woman.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New York
KEYWORDS: arzberger; crime; music; violinist
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To: left that other site
Oh, we’ll have an interlude here and there. We’ve gotta REST for a minuet or two...................
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:24:48 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Publius
Hey, Every Good Boy Deserves Fun! Must have at least thought the prostitute had a pretty F-A-C-E!
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:25:26 PM PDT
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Grateful2God
(Because no word shall be impossible with God. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord...)
To: Red Badger
But then we’ll pickup and gallop along!
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:25:49 PM PDT
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To: Grateful2God
All Cows Enjoy Grass.
From the tenor of the story, this may have been the case.
The whole sordid thing is quite bass and viol.
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:27:35 PM PDT
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(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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This comic opera must have an opus......................
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:29:01 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:30:24 PM PDT
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(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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O-boe! It’s a fine kettle of fish he’s in! Got caught in a big snare!
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:37:13 PM PDT
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Grateful2God
(Because no word shall be impossible with God. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord...)
To: Grateful2God
This man’s sinfonia has become a cymbal of what is wrong with society.
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:39:19 PM PDT
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To: Red Badger
Probably because she (?) kept harping on him... Just some poor guy from out in the sticks...
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:41:01 PM PDT
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Grateful2God
(Because no word shall be impossible with God. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord...)
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Classical Music ... Not as bad as it sounds.
TT
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:41:42 PM PDT
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TexasTransplant
(Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
To: Grateful2God
I guess he/she didn’t want to play the mouth organ duet................
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:47:39 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Theoria
Of all the hookers, in all the gin joints in all the world, he had to piccolo-life like that one!
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:48:12 PM PDT
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Grateful2God
(Because no word shall be impossible with God. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord...)
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We’re headed for a great crescendo..............
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:49:18 PM PDT
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Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Red Badger
.... then his brain went flat!
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:54:12 PM PDT
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Grateful2God
(Because no word shall be impossible with God. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord...)
To: Grateful2God
He shoulda known he woodwind up in jail.
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06/12/2015 1:56:16 PM PDT
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To: Red Badger
We have to be...it’s all in the Legal Coda.
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:57:28 PM PDT
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To: TexasTransplant
Not when you know the score!
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06/12/2015 1:58:28 PM PDT
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He really should have put his pants on first... one legato at a time!
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posted on
06/12/2015 1:59:45 PM PDT
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Grateful2God
(Because no word shall be impossible with God. And Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord...)
To: Grateful2God
He got staccato in a bad habit, obviously.
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06/12/2015 2:01:20 PM PDT
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To: Grateful2God
If he thinks he can just waltz through this, he is sadly mistaken.
But what about the woman? It takes two to tango, you know.
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06/12/2015 2:03:42 PM PDT
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(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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