PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A rather unusual concert is taking place Sunday evening at the 23rd Street Armory in Center City. It's called "Symphony for a Broken Orchestra" and aims to highlight the ...

Evelena Shermaine Pinder, who works in Philly's pre-K program, strums a zither during rehearsal for "Symphony for a Broken Orchestra." (Emma Lee/WHYY) John McInerney plays a one-string violin during a ...

The Symphony for a Broken Orchestra installation of broken instruments at Temple Contemporary (courtesy Robert Blackson) The School District of Philadelphia has over 1,000 broken musical instruments, ...

PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - In 2007, the support for the arts across the entire school district of Philadelphia was $1.3 million. Ten years later, instrumental music in the School District of Philadelphia has ...

Damaged instruments from the 'Symphony for a Broken Orchestra' are coming back into the Philadelphia School District, ready to play. Leo Zhang, a student at Mayfair Elementary, will learn to play a ...

LONGVIEW, TX (KLTV) - A Longview man has discovered a way to put the music back into old broken instruments. And the broken stringed instruments are capable of producing many more sounds than the ...

PATERSON — Aaliyah Nelson, 13, had been running into difficulty as she tried to learn how to play the flute because the old instrument she was using had a faulty key wire. Whenever the wire popped ...

Music students in public schools often play with bad or broken instruments, so one group in New York set out to fix that. Music education is part of most public schools in this country. Does a kid ...

In a cheerful rehearsal room at Temple University, a few dozen professional musicians inspect the instruments that they'll be playing to debut an audacious piece of music by a Pulitzer Prize-winning ...