What can we learn from an orchestra of broken instruments?

by Nadja Sayej on December 1, 2017
The Guardian

When Grammy award-winning composer David Lang was 10 years old, he tapped his music teacher on the shoulder and said: “I want to play in the school band.”

The teacher handed him a trombone and that became the musical instrument he played all the way through graduate school.

“This musical instrument changed my life and that’s why I’m a composer,” said Lang, who won the Pulitzer prize for music in 2008. “All because of my public school.”