After hundreds of broken instruments unite in symphony, they’ll be repaired for Philly kids

By Peter Crimmins on December 1, 2017
WHYY

A few years ago, Rob Blackson, the director of the Temple Contemporary art gallery at Temple University, was standing in a shuttered school district building in South Philadelphia. While waiting to be sold, the Bok Technical School building had become a temporary warehouse for district surplus, including many hundreds of broken musical instruments.