Leslie Howard - Road Rage Attack

[thalbergmad]

Oh dear, it appears Mr Howard has dragged a man along the road on the bonnet of his Merc.

He has been found guilty of actual bodily harm and bailed until April 15th.

Some pianists appear to be highly strung.

Thal

[richard black]

Some pianists appear to be highly strung.

Ta-daaaa!

But using a Mercedes seems a bit over the top. Leslie Howard looks to me like the sort of guy who could inflict ABH with just a couple of fingers. Wouldn't want to catch a slap off him myself, at any rate.

[ahinton]

Assuming Thal's source of information to be nothing better than the UK's Daily Mail newspaper (in which the journalist describes "Dr Howard" as a "composer"), I suppose that, if this tells us anything at all that's worth knowing, it is that it takes over a year for something like this even to get to court, which presumably demonstrates just how overloaded the UK courts are; indeed, as someone rather ruefully observed recently, the problem in Britain is that, whilst there are not enough policemen, not enough Crown Prosecution Service staff, not enough courts, not enough judges and not enough prison places, there remains a surfeit of lawyers and an even greater surfeit of criminals. I might also suppose that there will be those who might conclude that people who insist on driving Toyota Yarises around the streets of sarf Lunnun deserve what's coming to them.

Assuming that Leslie Howard gets away with a fine and avoids being detained at the pleasure of the lady who awarded him the Order of Australia nine years ago, his next recording will include Rzewski's The Road and Beethoven's Rage over a Lost Penny...

Best,

Alistair