In 2007, when Carnegie Hall presented the Berlin Philharmonic as the centerpiece of its festival Berlin in Lights, the players performed chamber music in schools and communities around New York.
Unlike in better-known music schools, chamber music, with its emphasis on interaction and collegiality, is an integral part of the curriculum and not an afterthought.
Because Cabe wants an ugly and unsustainable Tesco built, despite opposition from the town council, chamber of commerce, schools and residents, on a beautiful, allotment-graced riverside site in my home town, Hadleigh, a happily self-sufficient backwater of rural Suffolk.
The program is intended to generate a school chamber orchestra within four years.
So, when its high school chamber music festival opens on Friday at 6 30 p.m., the Harborfields High School Chamber Orchestra will play Copland and at least one other American composer.
She has commitments too as joint director (with fellow pianist Richard Goode) of Marlboro Music, a chamber music summer school for young professionals in Vermont, and as a manager of the Borletti-Buitoni trust, funding promising young musicians early in their careers.
Many of the city's more than 20 community music schools have chamber music programs for amateurs.
Formed in the 1980's at the Budapest Academy, one of the finest schools for chamber music, this is an exceptional quartet.
These include coaching youth orchestras, visiting schools, playing chamber music concerts, giving talks or even writing in their own bowing marks in the string parts, according to Haden McKay, a spokesman for the players and member of the cello section.
In April the British Chambers of Commerce said schools had "lost the vocational plot".
