In an almost simultaneous announcement, the Boston Symphony said that Mr. Levine would step aside from his duties conducting and teaching at Tanglewood, where he was to lead the symphony as well as the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra, made up of students.
"We need to strengthen our system for monitoring off-duty conduct," Schaaf said.
His service in the Navy was marked by heroism, particularly in one dramatic day in June 1958 while on duty conducting surveillance off the coast of North Korea.
That the performers at Abu Ghraib believed that their on-duty conduct was not only acceptable but also expected of them is an easy conclusion for anyone with military experience.
They call for establishing protocols for off-duty conduct, increasing testing for racial bias among officers and improving how police departments manage such encounters when they occur within their ranks.
Now, Officer Raymond's on-duty conduct is once more the focus of a legal proceeding, this one a lawsuit that alleges Officer Raymond and another Nassau County police officer beat, kicked and humiliated a Valley Stream man who was suspected of letting the air out of a neighbor's car tires.
Coats's lawsuit cited a Colorado statute that prohibits employers from discriminating or terminating workers for engaging in legal, off-duty conduct.
Include expected duties and behaviors of parties, including off-duty conduct.
Lorin Maazel, mixing his Philharmonic and Met duties this week, conducts the program, which also features Berlioz's "Benvenuto Cellini" Overture, along with Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 and "Scythian Suite".
Its eighteen-member board and volunteers conduct most of the operational duties, including conducting birding field trips and the annual fund raiser called the "Spring Fling".
