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It all sounds pretty weird. The hotel room mixup plausibly sounds like a mistake by staff during check in. But that begs the question for why the violinist was fired?
Idk. This whole story reads as a series of non-sequitors. There has to be more going on here.
The article made me wonder if Smith is homophobic. The line about having a replacement violinist ready to go when he was fired made it seem like this wasn't a snap dismissal, though