The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain has cancelled Andrew Batterham’s Trumpet Concerto from its Summer Course concert in Blackburn next Saturday.
Batterham, 56, has been charged with alleged child sex offences in Melbourne, Australia.
The King has sent a message of support…
Rudolph Vrbsky, principal oboist of the National Symphony…
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Will this EVER stop? And it’s always men! (almost anyway.) Are musicians just a bunch of perverts? Did they spend too much time alone in the practice room and not develop normal human relationships? Enough!
Hi, No! The Pedophilia is and has been EVERYWHERE! Why should we expect any different in a world that satan holds dominion over? I bet it’s even worse than we could ever possibly imagine! God help us!
No it’s not just musicians!
It’s doctors, dentists, scout masters, teachers, ministers, and your friendly next door neighbor.
Back in the 1980s. I taught in a very exclusive private school in s.e. Pennsylvania for several years. We had a governor’s son, a nationally known football star’s son and a daughter of a Hollywood movie star.
Headmaster turned out to have been a pedophile for years. Everyone just thought he was paying extra special attention to some sad little boys. We were so naive. And what was worse, the board let him go and for the reputation of the school covered it up and gave him a glowing recommendation to the boarding school in Long Island, N.Y. where he was hired.
He ended up in prison after too many more years of abusing private school kids in the New England states.
Do you always immediately believe everything you read?
Nominative determinism?
And they wonder where’s the audiences? Why all the geriatricks etc. Why so many in classical music need to do such horrid things. Sickos it’s systemic vile problem. The genitalia pictures by a reverted hornist is enough to make one leave music permanently. Also, another hornist was sexting students -wanting to see “pics “…and using sexual terms for crescendos and playing the horn. There needs to be psychological exams on orchestral players please.
Yes ! Nominative determinism . People tend do things related to surnames.
Batter the ham
Have comments been deleted? I see 17 comments are supposed to be here but count only 7.
Well, my comment seems to have been deleted! I repeat that I hope whoever went to the trouble of learning the solo part is given another opportunity to shine!