The New York Philharmonic said Sunday that it had decided to fire two key players — its principal oboist, Liang Wang, and associate principal trumpet, Matthew Muckey — for unspecified misconduct. But it said it had delayed their dismissals while the musicians’ union reviewed the matter. No details of the allegations against the two players — including whether they involved sexual misconduct or not, and whether they related to on- or off-duty behavior — were provided. The orchestra said in a terse statement only that after it had received reports that the two players had “engaged in misconduct,” it retained Barbara S. Jones, an attorney at Bracewell and a former federal judge, to investigate. An orchestra official said the investigation took five months.

Source: New York Times September 16, 2018 21:33 UTC