A former principal second violinist with the Manchester-based orchestra was jailed yesterday for 28 months.
Dara De Cogan, 58, was found guilty of grooming a girl pupil from the age of 13 to fulfil his sexual fantasies. The offences occurred while he was teaching at Ampleforth College, a private Roman Catholic boarding school.
De Cogan joined the Halle in 1982 and was promoted to principal second four years later. He became head of strings at Ampleforth in 2004. He was an active chamber musician, with several recordings to his credit.
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The incoming director of the Vienna State Opera has been accused of plagiarising parts of his dissertation – quoting from another man’s work without attribution.
The University announced today that has appointed an external expert to look into the matter. Results will be published in October.
Roscic has promised to cooperate.
He was supposed to conduct the opening performance of a spectacular Aida in Vienna’s Allianz Stadium this June, ahead of a world tour. The previews spoke of 800 performers, live horses and lots of slaves.
But the stage technology is not working so the show has been postponed to June 2018.
Just in time for the World Cup.
Peter Dobrin has written a beautiful tribute to David Arben, a violinist who played 34 years in the Philadelphia Orchestra, a third of them as associate concertmaster.
The violin had saved David as a teenager from a Nazi firing squad.
He died in a retirement home two weeks ago, aged 89.
Read the obituary here.
Hear him play here.
