American Boychoir School
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The American Boychoir School is a music boarding school located in Princeton, New Jersey whose students make up the largest non-sectarian boys' choir in the United States.
Founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1937, the American Boychoir moved to Princeton in 1950. The choir makes over 200 appearances in four to five major tours annually. The choir has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, and opera singers Jessye Norman, Frederica von Stade and Kathleen Battle. The choir has had numerous television appearances on NBC's Today show, and is featured on 16 recordings.
The school has suffered in reputation due to revelations of sexual abuse of students by staff members, mainly in the early 1970s. One of the students victimized was constitutional scholar Lawrence Lessig, who has represented another student, John Hardwicke, in his lawsuit against the school.
External links
- American Boychoir School (http://www.americanboychoir.org/)
- Child Protection Statement (http://www.americanboychoir.org/about_safety.html) - official policy of the American Boychoir School
- American Boychoir School - Decades of Sexual Abuse (http://www.americanboyschoir.com/) - advocacy site
- Lawrence Lessig and the American Boychoir School (http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/features/12061/) - May 2005 article
