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.
The court heard that Smith invited the girl, whom he knew from the school's chamber orchestra, to visit his country home near Buxton, at some point between 1976 and 1978.
On family holidays in Wiltshire, at Grittleton School House near Chippenham, where her father played the cello at a summer school for chamber music, Donaldson was inspired by "a woman who took a Gilbert and Sullivan song and changed the lyrics to the names of the people attending, to make a little satirical sketch".
The Music Department also has rehearsals for the school orchestra, chamber choir, wind band and brass ensemble amongst other ensembles.
Junior and Senior School students can participate in musical ensembles, both selective and non-selective, including several bands, string orchestras, a full school orchestra, chamber music ensembles, choral groups and several smaller instrumental and vocal groups.
STUYVESANT HIGH SCHOOL, 345 Chambers Street, Lower Manhattan.
Many of the city's more than 20 community music schools have chamber music programs for amateurs.
Police officials ordered the school, at Chambers and West Streets, to be evacuated through the north entrance, away from the World Trade Center, at about 10 30 a.m.
Formed in the 1980's at the Budapest Academy, one of the finest schools for chamber music, this is an exceptional quartet.
