Dear Friends of the Audubon Quartet and Chamber Music Lovers Everywhere:

Concerned members of the Blacksburg, Virginia community have authored a declaration/petition, which calls for an end to David Ehrlich’s treatment of his former colleagues of the Audubon Quartet, Doris Lederer, and Clyde (Tom) Shaw and Akemi Takayama. When these three quartet members fired Mr. Ehrlich in February 2000 in order to preserve the musical integrity, organizational health, and viability of the Audubon Quartet, he chose to respond with lawsuits.

After a long series of misadventures with courts in Pennsylvania and Virginia, plus the federal Bankruptcy Court, the three members of the Quartet are now faced with imminent court-ordered liquidation of their personal property, including musical instruments and one home. Mr. Ehrlich will collect his former colleagues’ worldly goods on the grounds, among others, of having lost his job at Virginia Tech.

To express support for the members of the Audubon Quartet, we ask you to sign a community declaration and/or a petition to Dr. Charles Steger, President of Virginia Tech (the Quartet’s former employer and Mr. Ehrlich’s current employer), asking for his assistance in resolving the dispute without punitive confiscations.

For more information on how to express your disapproval of David Ehrlich’s actions, please visit the following website:

http://www.enditnow.org

Also, please feel free to pass this information along to your friends on your mailing list.

If you have already signed the on-line declaration/petition, we thank you for your support!