ABOUT DAVID BLUMBERG

Some posts by Zeneba Bowers

On May 17, 2024, Zeneba Bowers wrote the following Facebook post:

Do you know clarinetist David Blumberg? We have 112 mutual friends, so I know some of you do (I am not friends with him).

Tonight he posted about the protest at Lincoln Center, and that caught my attention, because I know that a peace order (most of us know this as a restraining order) was in place against him to stop him from contacting Katherine Needleman, because of threats he made against her.

Katherine Needleman is one of the leaders of the protest on Monday, which has been in every public announcement. David knows that, because the only way he knows about these protests is through the public announcements.

David also knows better, because he had to explain himself in front of a Baltimore County Judge, who was so unimpressed with his defense that they issued the longest possible restraining order legally permitted in Baltimore.

So when David posted about the event, sounding like he was in support of it, that struck me as strange. Call me crazy, but if someone had a restraining order against me, I would not be talking about where they were going to be, in exactly what place and time, on social media (or anywhere else).

And that is why I wrote to David on Facebook, publicly, to inform him that if anything should happen on Monday, I will be sending images of his social media to NYPD and Baltimore Police. The same images you see here.

As I anticipated, David deleted his post within 5 seconds of me commenting on it. David pretends not to understand the seriousness of this, but remember: a Baltimore County Judge found him so threatening that they issued the longest possible restraining order against him. So I am posting it here publicly to discourage David from going to NYC, or anywhere else that he knows Katherine will be. (He also sent me a private note, which I am posting in the comments.)

I am doing this because I want David to be fully, completely aware that he should not be at Lincoln Center on Monday, or anywhere else that Katherine is.

Pro tip: If you have had a restraining order issued against you, just stay away from that person. Forever. For ever and ever.

On May 21, 2024, Zeneba made the following Facebook post:

Honestly, I really don’t know what to do. I am not a psychologist, and I am not an FBI profiler… I am just a violinist who hopes a colleague does not get physically attacked.

On May 18, I posted some screenshots of comments by David Blumberg, which were clearly threatening to Katherine Needleman (scroll down my page if you want to recap). I posted them, as a public warning to David, because I was concerned that he might harm Katherine. Katherine was hosting a protest taking place at Lincoln Center yesterday, and David sounded like he was planning to attend. I was concerned, because he posts pictures of himself with guns, openly threatens Katherine, and had a restraining order put against him in Baltimore in 2022 ordering him to stay away from Katherine.

If you had a restraining order put against you by someone who lived multiple states away, do you think you might STFU about them? I know I would. But not David. So imagine my surprise when I just saw the comments posted Monday on my page by David, clearly threatening Katherine. “𝙄 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙖 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙢, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙚,” he writes; and also “This harassment of me needs to stop, or 𝙄 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙠 𝙖 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚-𝙩𝙤-𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 to achieve a peaceful compromise.” (It is worth noting that the "harassment" David refers to is other people reposting or commenting on his own words).

I thought a lot about this before posting it, because in general, I ignore people like this. But a few things have led me to feel that it is necessary to post about it. Here is my thinking:

1. David has a history of threatening colleagues, and posts pictures of himself with guns, and at gun ranges.

2. Katherine has only ever met David one time in her life: in court, seeking a restraining order. Most restraining orders are for boyfriends, or coworkers, or family, someone with whom the victim has had a lot of contact….not some random guy from multiple states away who didn’t like what he read about women’s rights and then hopped on his keyboard and threatened someone so much that a Baltimore County judge saw fit to issue the longest possible restraining order against him. That is what happened in this case: it is a “Lifetime movie” level of crazy.

3. David had a restraining order put against him in 2021-22 (see below). In 2024 this man thought it was a good idea to post on Facebook about Katherine playing an oboe concerto with the Baltimore Symphony just two weeks ago, saying “Bring friends”. Just imagine you had a restraining order put against you, and after it expired, you followed your victim's career, then publicly told people to come to their events. That is very, very concerning to me.

I am worried about stoking up this guy; but given what I noted above, I think that SOMEONE has to make sure to tell him publicly:

DO NOT try to have a “face-to-face discussion”, David. Ever. Do not show up where she works, or lives, or shops. This will not be difficult since she lives several states away. I am keeping track of your page, and your public comments, and keeping them all in a file. If anything were to happen to Katherine, that file would go to the police in Baltimore, in your state, and the FBI (because crossing state borders to commit a felony is a federal crime). I will continue to do that in perpetuity. If you are not a threat to Katherine, then this need never be discussed again. Let us hope it is so.

Zeneba also shared another screenshot of the court order above in this post.