American Boychoir School

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.

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Boarding school - Princeton, New Jersey - Choir - United States

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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.

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Columbus, Ohio - 1937 - New York Philharmonic - Berlin Philharmonic - Boston Symphony Orchestra - Yo-Yo Ma - Wynton Marsalis - Jessye Norman - Frederica von Stade - Kathleen Battle - NBC - Today

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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.

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Sexual abuse - 1970s - Lawrence Lessig

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