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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WCAU) - A unique kind of orchestra played in Philadelphia, it's a symphony of broken instruments. WCAU's Matt Delucia with the story of 400 musicians playing so that those very ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...