The Pultizer-winning composer (The Little Match Girl Passion) has written the piece for 400 musicians, all playing damaged instruments from Philadelphia’s public school system. (The work was created as a one-time fundraiser – the money will be spent to repair the instruments and return them to Philly classrooms – but other school districts are already asking to perform the score.) Reporter Samantha Melamed checks out a rehearsal and talks to the composer about how to write music for instruments that are, by their natures (because they’re broken), unreliable.
Tag: 11.15.17
The ‘Lion King’ Effect: How A Broadway Smash Changed South African Lives
“Over 20 years, hundreds of performers have joined the show in cities around the globe. These are some of their stories – laced with hope, tragedy, homesickness and triumph.”
Louvre Abu Dhabi’s Treatment Of Migrant Workers Has Gotten Better, But Has It Improved Enough?
“In a gesture of inclusiveness that is rare in the region, the workers who had built the Jean Nouvel-designed museum on Saadiyat Island were given their own party. … Yet questions remain over the welfare of these and other construction workers, mostly migrants from the Indian subcontinent, on the island.” Annual reports by PricewaterhouseCoopers note improvements, but the results are still – well, mixed.