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    The Healing Sound Of A Broken Orchestra

    Philadelphia's public school system has over 1,000 broken instruments.
    by Neda Ulaby Nov 30, 2017 3 minutes
    This weekend, hundreds of people, ranging from Philadelphia Orchestra musicians to school kids, will play broken instruments owned by the Philadelphia public school system in hopes of getting them fixed.

    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 composer.

    The composition is called "Symphony For a Broken Orchestra" and, fittingly, these instruments are all broken.

    Over 1,000 damaged instruments are languishing in what are known as "instrument graveyards" in Philadelphia's public school system, which lacks the funds to fix them. This weekend, 400 of these

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