The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO) has dismissed a longtime flutist over her controversial social media posts that they claimed trafficked in “conspiracy theories.”
“Principal Flutist Emily Skala has been dismissed from the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra in accordance with the progressive discipline policy agreed to in our collective bargaining agreement with the Musicians’ Association of Metropolitan Baltimore Local 40-543, AFM,” BSO President and CEO Peter Kjome said in a statement released to the press. “Ms. Skala has had discipline imposed upon her over these past few months; unfortunately, she has repeated the conduct for which she had been previously disciplined, and dismissal was the necessary and appropriate reaction to this behavior.”
That “discipline” was levied against Skala because she apparently had a history of sharing so-called “conspiracy theories” about the coronavirus and the 2020 election. The BSO’s issues with Skala spilled into the public sphere in February, when the orchestra publicly distanced itself from her views.
Among other controversial views, Skala claimed COVID-19 was made in a lab in North Carolina and sold to a lab in Wuhan, China, where it was then planted in a wet market. The first confirmed human infections were in Wuhan. However, the virus is thought to have a natural origin, likely jumping from bats to humans. The possibility it might have accidentally been released from a lab remains under investigation.
Skala reportedly also made incendiary comments in internal emails. She defended herself in a March letter to The Baltimore Sun and claimed management had created a hostile work environment.
“I had posted information from what I understand to be peer-reviewed studies, independent journalists, and licensed medical doctors who weren’t chosen to be presented on our mainstream channels, along with educational videos and charts,” Skala wrote. “These pieces contradict what we are being told through mass media.”
But Skala told the Sun that she believed the incident that precipitated her firing came on July 23, when she went to Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall to hand in her new W-4 tax form and did not have a mask with her. When she discovered her key card had been deactivated, she said, she tried to open the door. She said she had been barred from the building and said she believes management was looking for a reason to terminate her.
“From February until now, the BSO has repeatedly violated my constitutional rights in response to audience and donor and subscriber pressure,” Skala told the paper. “They’ve committed many crimes against me, none of which they have acknowledged even to themselves. It would not be right to let that go unaccounted for. I would hate for this to happen to anyone else.”
Well, well, now you can be fired for having an opinion. So, why not fire the people that has opinion that someone’s opinion is bad.
I agree, that would shut them up in a hurry.
Do not let them go unaccounted for. Take them to the courts Ms. Scala! It must be done each and every time our constitutional rights are violated.
WTH??? Are we Communist now !!!!! Stop this nonsense .
Yes ,we are Communists now as of 2020 election.Democrats mutated to CCP Communists,stole the election and are destroying the country.Thanks to all Democrat voters dead and alive
Good for her. Doesn’t she have freedom or speech? Or has that already been taken away. It appears the only people that still have freedom to speak are the democrats and all their WOKE friends.
The orchestra should be disbanded, since everyone has a political view.
This is going to rile up all musicians. Especially those in orchestras because they tend toward conservative views.
Someone needs to tell them that *THE WHOLE COUNTRY IS A FREE SPEECH ZONE!!!*
Baltimore…………….that is the hometown of the Late Congressman John Lewis who died of a heart attack shortly after Trump wanted to know what he and his minions did with Billions of Tax Payer Dollars. Lewis served in Congress for about 30 years. Baltimore was
a slum when he first was elected and continued to be a Slum when he died. Perhaps,
Guilt was the cause of his heart attack. Nonetheless, where is the Money?
Stand strong for the truth! God will bless you!
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