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, ...

Facing a multimillion-dollar debt and other financial strains, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra has decided to sell a collection of 30 string instruments it invested in just four years ago, reports ...

Elaine Gleason had her first serious encounter with classical music when she was in third grade. A friend's father directed a school program that taught children to play symphonic instruments, and one ...

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 ...

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 ...