Broken Orchestra

    Listen 17:00
    Guests: Robert Blackson and Celina Valez
     
    We’ll hear about the Symphony for a Broken Orchestra, a new project in Philadelphia aimed at highlighting the underfunded city schools which cannot afford to repair their musical instruments. Temple Contemporary director ROBERT BLACKSON will tell us about the project and we’ll some of the broken instruments that will be used in the symphony when CELINA VALEZ, music teacher at the Pan American Academy Charter School gives us a demonstration.

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