Klarinet Archive - Posting 000156.txt from 2006/02

From: "Lelia Loban" <lelialoban@-----.net>
Subj: [kl]Fired String Quartet member gets $500 k
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2006 10:45:57 -0500


Thanks to David Blumberg for sending a link about the settlement of the
lawsuit between the former first violinist of the Audubon Quartet and the
rest of the quartet. What a mind-boggling nightmare!
http://www.courttv.com/news/2006/0209/violinist_ap.html

Since I didn't know anything about this case, I Googled for more detailed
articles about the fracas and its context:

Kevin Kitteredge, "Last Act? Violinist Ehrlich seeks ex-colleagues'
assets," News from The Roanoke Times, Sunday, November 20, 2005
http://www.roanoke.com/extra/wb/wb/xp-41598

Daniel J. Watkin, "The Broken Chord," The New York Times, December 11, 2005
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20A1FF638550C728DDDAB0994DD
404482
This article is reprinted on the The URI! Zone [Brian Uri!]:
http://www.urizone.net/?redirect=http://www.urizone.net/Olio/Chord.php

Clarke Bustard, "Quartet's court clash nears end," Richmond
TimesDispatch.com, December 17, 2005
http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_Ba
sicArticle&c =MGArticle&cid=1128768774825

Daniel J. Watkin, "How Audubon Musicians Kept Their Instruments," New York
Times, February 7, 2006
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/07/arts/music/07audu.html?pagewanted=print

To make the links work, please remove any line-ender symbols that may
appear where the lines wrap. Quite a lot more has appeared in the Roanoke
Times. (See the links in the Kitteredge article for those; and see Google
for a lot more links.) Of the articles referenced above, the one in the
December 11, 2005 New York Times gives the most background information.
The lesson I take is that a chamber group earning serious money had better
begin by asking an attorney to draw up the equivalent of a prenuptial
agreement. An arbitration clause might have prevented the worst of this
mess.

Lelia Loban

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