by Jarrett Hoffman
HAPPENING TODAY:
A 12pm Brownbag Concert at Trinity Cathedral will feature soprano Jacqueline Josten and mezzo-soprano Kira McGirr (pictured) in duets from Monteverdi to Mozart. A freewill offering will be taken up.
IN CLASSICAL MUSIC NEWS:
Last week in an article by Sammy Sussman for New York Magazine, hornist Cara Kizer shared details of the evening of July 24, 2010, when she was a member of the New York Philharmonic and the ensemble was in residency in Vail, Colorado. She alleges that she was drugged by oboist Liang Wang and raped by trumpeter Matthew Muckey, both of whom were her orchestra colleagues at the time. A Vail police officer recommended that charges be filed, but the Fifth Judicial District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute.
In 2018, the Philharmonic contracted an independent investigation into this and other allegations against Wang and Muckey, which resulted in their firing from the ensemble, only for a challenge from the musician’s union and a ruling by an independent arbitrator to force their rehiring.
This week, the Philharmonic announced that Wang and Muckey “would not take part in rehearsals or performances for the time being after a magazine article detailed the allegations of misconduct that had been made against them,” as Javier C. Hernández writes for The New York Times.
Read the New York Magazine article here.