Jerry Stemach lived out a quiet dream Sunday afternoon when he played the cello for the first time inside Rohnert Park’s Weill Hall at the Green Music Center. “I grew up playing the saxophone but deep ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Music shapes hearts, builds confidence and opens doors to possibilities children never knew they had.

Palm Beach Symphony is tuning up its instrument donation program as the school year begins. The company solicits donations of musical instruments, ensures that they meet performance standards, then ...