NYPhil oboist loses teaching post
OrchestrasThe Manhattan School of Music this morning quietly placed Liang Wang on leave, updating its website.
Wang has been suspended as principal oboe of the New York Philharmonic while an investigation is conducted into historic allegations of involvement in rape.
He remains on the faculties of Beijing’s Central Conservatory of Music and the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. His lawyer has told the New York Times that the ‘only person accused of misconduct in connection with that matter’ is Wang’s friend, the associate principal trumpet Matthew Muckey. Muckey’s lawyer said: ‘our client was cleared of any wrongdoing.’
This guy at least has his Chinese posts to fall back on. They’ll take good care of him. Maybe he can get his friend a new job too. Problem solved, though I suspect that drugging and raping a woman over there could result in their execution, so they’ll want to keep their noses and other extremities clean.
If the NY Phil’s excuse for (re)hiring Wang was that they were forced to, what is Manhattan School of Music’s excuse?
And to have him teach children no less.
If that how they hire their own babysitters or nannies or tutors?
“Oh, honey let’s pick the one whose guilt has not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Well, technically they were both cleared during arbitration at the “clear and convincing” standard of evidence. No DA would have ever won the beyond a reasonable doubt standard.
Semen was found on a tampon shoved up inside the victim. No grown woman would have ever allowed that to happen without being drugged. This oboist did not do the rape, but he was there and stood up for Muckey. Also, this has brought out tons of stories of run-ins other women have had with him. He is well known for his juvenile and childish behavior. In the corporate world he would have been fired from every company for multiple situations. This behavior unqualifies him from being allowed around students.
In the UK any involvement in a case like this would result in a lifetime ban of teaching children…. It’s called the disclosure and barring service and has a way lower level of proof than “ beyond all reasonable doubt” as children must be protected…. What is the US equivalent?
MSM has no integrity when it comes to hiring faculty. Lawsuits happen behind closed doors and settled the same.
And so it grows.
He needs to be charged with rape and convicted. This crap has gone on way to long in the classical music industry and left unchecked because of job fears, a feckless union and intimidation. He can play his oboe for the inmates in cell block D.
Go back to China
All of this would have been hidden had it not been for the expose. Shameful. I wonder if anyone else may step forward.
His lawyer said he was cleared but I say birds of a feather
Looks like he got suspended with pay at all his jobs because they have no proof of his wrongdoing. Lucky dude. Enjoy the vacay!
What took so long?
Keep up the purge to include all those pensioned, emeritus, retired music teachers guilty of sexual misconduct with their students.
Lucky he isn’t in jail getting a taste of his own medicine.
Another music college hopping on the cancel culture bandwagon. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
Victim testimony is considered evidence. Just because the Colorado DA didn’t want to charge them with anything doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.
Did Mr Wang ever get to defend himself from these accusations? If not then this is yet another example of a witch hunt which sees a potentially innocent man burnt at the stake because of “victim testimony”.
I understand being on two faculties in the same city but how does one properly be a teacher to instrumentalists on two continents? And when the day job with the NY Phil is a year round commitment?
How did that work?
He wasn’t really flying out there every week, was he? Was he just doing one-off master classes when he could get away?
Does the oboe student have a real teacher that he or she sees every week?
I think you point out a very important side of this rapist. He seems really powerful in China and very well connected. Maybe he is some politician’s child? Because look, the winner of Chopin Competition YunDi Lee got blocked everywhere in China because he hired prostitute, which shows China at some point has very high moral standard to keep the communist society stable, and I would say they would have even extreme punishment for rapist, but so far nothing, and this Liang Wang was still with two of the best music conservatories in China. Something really fishy here.
Gave a drugged wine. That’s a crime
Muckey?!?
The hysterical woke fascists have brought out the torches and the pitchforks. Never mind due process. Vigilante justice through the press and social media prevails. “Send him back to China!” “Lock him up!” Gee, I wonder who that sounds like. The woketards and the MAGATs deserve one another. Two sides of the same fascist coin.
All you arm-chair police detectives better keep your day-jobs! There is no DNA evidence tying him to this crime. Even if he handed her the drink (he says he didn’t) doesn’t mean that he’s the one who spiked it, or that he even knew that it was spiked. And he wasn’t present when she woke up in bed with Muckey.
He plays in NY PHIL and he’s on the faculty of FOUR schools? I would fire for that, alone. The rest is a no-brainer.
When are they going to do something about the faculty misconduct at the Peabody Conservatory of Music? Racism, sexual assaults, harassment, ostracizing students and keeping them from future work if they don’t agree to assaults and racial epithets??? What the hell has happened to our top conservatories and why has this been going on unchecked for decades? Shame on the administrative weaklings who turn a blind eye to it when they know full well what is going on. Stop abusing your positions! You aren’t invincible gods!
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What faculty misconduct?
If he’s smart, he will quit, rather than be fired and go to China where they apparently don’t care about keeping rapists on staff.