Norwalk Youth Symphony Opens Adult Music Appreciation Program to Public Written by Norwalk Youth Symphony
Youth symphony opens popular adult music appreciation webinars to general public
The Norwalk Youth Symphony (NYS), which serves the Fairfield and Westchester regions, is opening its Adult Music Appreciation program to the general public. These weekly webinars, led by NYS conductors, discuss significant composers and focus on some of the most important works in the classical music canon, all underscored with excerpts from the music.
The course schedules include discussions of Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony and Beethoven’s Ninth, along with broader themes such as Leonard Bernstein’s role in shaping American music, and how music functions as an “unseen hero” in great films.
Feb 4, 2021
President Joe Biden’s pick for Veterans Affairs Secretary, Denis McDonough, has his work cut out for him in West Virginia. In fact, he might wonder what in the world has been going on in the Mountain State, after former night shift nursing assistant Reta Mays pleaded guilty last year to seven counts of second-degree murder and one count of assault with intent to commit an eighth at the Louis A. Johnson VA Hospital in Clarksburg, and now former doctor Jonathan Yates has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he molested and violated the civil rights of three patients at the Beckley VA Medical Center.
Former Veterans Affairs Doctor Sentenced to Prison for Sexual Abuse of Veterans Details Written by Justice Department
Washington, DC - A former doctor of osteopathic medicine who previously worked at the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center in Beckley, West Virginia, was sentenced Monday for depriving veterans of their civil rights under color of law by sexually abusing them.
U.S. District Judge Frank W. Volk sentenced Jonathan Yates, 52, of Bluefield, Virginia, to 300 months in prison and three years of supervised release, announced Deputy Assistant Attorney General Gregory B. Friel of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Michael B. Stuart of the Southern District of West Virginia, Special Agent in Charge Michael A. Christman of the Pittsburgh Division of the FBI, and VA Inspector General Michael J. Missal.
Jan 28, 2021
President Joe Biden’s Veterans Affairs Secretary, Denis McDonough, has his work cut out for him in West Virginia. In fact, he might wonder what in the world has been going on in the Mountain State, after former night shift nursing assistant Reta Mays pleaded guilty last year to seven counts of second-degree murder and one count of assault with intent to commit an eighth at the Louis A. Johnson VA Hospital in Clarksburg, and now former doctor Jonathan Yates has pleaded guilty to federal charges that he molested and violated the civil rights of three patients at the Beckley VA Medical Center.
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Ex-VA doctor sentenced to 25 years over molesting patients
A former doctor at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to molesting three male patients
ByThe Associated Press
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. A former doctor at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to federal charges that he molested three male patients and violated their civil rights.
U.S. District Judge Frank Volk sentenced Jonathan Yates, 52, to the prison term and three years of supervised release, prosecutors announced.