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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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His defense lawyers said they believed that he was drugged earlier that morning by a prostitute he had brought to his hotel room, who they later discovered was a man.
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Sorry, but funny. Gonna learn to play the blues.
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posted on
06/12/2015 11:46:32 AM PDT
by
Theoria
To: Theoria
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posted on
06/12/2015 11:48:26 AM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: left that other site
Sure....dunno if this is worth listening.
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posted on
06/12/2015 11:49:47 AM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Theoria
The Kinks already did this one, L-O-L-A Lola ...
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posted on
06/12/2015 11:51:30 AM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: Theoria
Another case (get it, case) of sex and violins.
It might have been better if he had gone into Haydn.
Seriously, it isn’t the first lurid tale surrounding a inaptly-named virtuoso, and I fear it will not be the last. Reminds me of the difference between Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond, who were musical equals and moral unequals: if Desmond were alive today, it reads like something that would have happened to him.
As a musician who has never hired a prostitute in my life, as a Christian I still harbor a sense of there but for the grace of God, etc.
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posted on
06/12/2015 11:56:04 AM PDT
by
chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: left that other site; Grateful2God
Great musical puns in this thread.
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posted on
06/12/2015 11:57:01 AM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: Publius
Looks like the ho became one by Chopin off something.
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:03:31 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Theoria; sionnsar; abigailsmybaby; A CA Guy; airborne; Aloysius88; Altariel; Americanwolf; ...
There’s a joke somewhere in here...
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:04:40 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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Rush calls it a “chopadicoffamy.” He calls the reverse procedure an “addadictomy.”
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:05:30 PM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
To: Darksheare
Stay away, this one is too hot to Handel.
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:08:13 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Theoria
If the Schubert fits...................
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:11:31 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Theoria
At least nobody was Chopin any limbs off.
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:12:24 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Darksheare
Too bad the lady didn’t tell the guy to Bach off, or quit Messiaen around.
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:13:26 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Theoria
What happens with Leipzig , stays in Leipzig.
How many times must that be repeated?
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:14:17 PM PDT
by
Cyman
(We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
To: Darksheare
Now, he faces criminal charges of attempted murder, burglary, strangulation and assault, and a civil suit from the woman. That's quite a Liszt..................
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:14:21 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Cyman
Your right, it’s nobody’s Bizet but his.
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:15:40 PM PDT
by
Theoria
(I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
To: Theoria
...he was drugged earlier that morning by a prostitute he had brought to his hotel room, who they later discovered was a man.' He just wanted to get his Rachmaninoff..............
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:15:48 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Theoria
...and a civil suit from the woman. Maybe he could just Mahler a check.................
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:17:37 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
To: Publius
Rush has a fine Liszt of euphemisms! :-)
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:18:42 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
To: Darksheare
Theres a joke somewhere in here...I dunno, did they walk into a bar?
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posted on
06/12/2015 12:19:03 PM PDT
by
Fast Moving Angel
(It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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