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If There Ever Was by Robert Blackson6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() "I am only a musician because there were robust music programs in the public schools that I attended as a child. "The journey is to make all of these instruments playable as traditional instruments again, so that they can be returned to the schools and so that people can work with them," Lang said. Four hundred musicians - including musicians from the community, the Philadelphia public schools, the Philadelphia Orchestra, The Boyer College of Music & Dance, and the Curtis Institute of Music - will participate. That's what's happening in Philadelphia this week, with the world premiere performance Sunday of David Lang's "Symphony for a Broken Orchestra" at the 23rd Street Armory in Philadelphia. Post all the instruments online for adoption, raise money, fix the instruments and put them back in the hands of school children. Here's one option: collect all the instruments and then ask a Pulitzer and Grammy award-winning composer to write a symphony for them. What can a school district do with all its hopelessly broken musical instruments?.Laurie Niles Repairing 1,500 School Instruments with a 'Symphony for a Broken Orchestra' ![]()
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