CATEURA, Paraguay — The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

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A suspected crook struck a sour note after stealing instruments worth tens of thousands of dollars. The man accused of orchestrating the crime stole from South Florida’s youth, and despite an arrest, ...

The goal: reinvent the ways that both composer and listener approach the modern classical orchestra. Friar’s work focused on introducing new instruments into the centuries-old ensemble—in this case, ...

The most beautiful instrument that 60 Minutes producer Michael Gavshon found when he visited the child orchestra of Cateura, Paraguay, was a cello. The body of the cello was fashioned out of an oil ...

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Orchestra Iowa Maestro Timothy Hankewich adds a little jazz hands flourish after playing the orchestra’s celesta during a photo session Thursday on the Paramount Theatre stage in Cedar Rapids. The ...