New York Times awakes to a crime on its doorstep

New York Times awakes to a crime on its doorstep

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norman lebrecht

June 12, 2015

The paper has finally got around to talking to the Leipzig string quartet leader, Stefan Arzberger, who allegedly rampaged naked through a New York hotel ten weeks ago and was subsequently charged with attempted murder.

It looks from the context as if the interview was brokered by or through Kurt Masur, who was Stefan’s conductor in Leipzig and a former music director of the New York Philharmonic.

Most of the salacious details reported by the local tabloids are omitted. As are many of the things that Stefan and his lawyer have said before but couldn’t apparently, get past the Times censors.

Here, for what it’s worth, is the very dry piece.

stefan arzberger

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