Guildhall: We can’t say why conductor was fired
NewsA holding message from the Guildhall’s interim director, Jonathan Vaughan, about the dismissal of Peter Ash from the London Schools Symphony Orchestra.
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Has the conductor commented?
It would be useful if we could see all of that message.
“It would be useful if we could see all of that message.”
Inserting images correctly into web pages is REALLY hard. Just kidding. Here you go, albeit a little late:
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He has done a great job…but we fired him.
Personal problems means you resign yourself,isn’t it?
I take this to mean he got caught doing something he shouldn’t have been doing.
If Guildhall can’t tell us what that thing was, fine. Most of us, if we were fired, wouldn’t want our former employers to tell the world why.
Has to be a “thought crime” of some sort.
Bit then given the current climaye and involving kids, people jump to the conclusion that he’s allegedly a sex offender, rightly or wrongly.
Fact check: the text of the letter reads “personal data” not “personal problems”.
His contract was “terminated with immediate effect”. This is pretty strong language, and could mean either he was sacked for a major misdemeanour, or the LSSO is, e.g. in financial disarray and the suits are saving their own necks. Both scenarios are pure speculation of course. So let us look before we leap, as we are not (yet) privy to the details. There must be members in the organisation who are . . .
In other words, there’s an NDA. This is typical practice when an employment agreement is terminated and may be to protect the individual and/or the employer. And none of this necessarily implies something scandalous – just that having everything in the open may be unhelpful to either or both parties.
Excellent argument. But it will all come out in any case at some point in the not too distant future. So a cover up might not be wise for all parties concerned if a major misdemeanour by the conductor was indeed the reason for immediate termination of contract.