Making music again
Making music again 来自英语学习网 00:00 02:46
★★★☆☆ （生活与学习）Words: about 310; Time: 5 minutes
语篇导读：一群人致力于用破旧的乐器演奏各种不同的乐曲。他们为什么要这么做呢？
A project to repair damaged instruments is bringing music back to public schools.
In December, 400 musicians, young and old, walked onto the stage of the 23rd Street Armory, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They played music written for broken instruments owned by the School District of Philadelphia.
The concert was part of a project called Symphony for a Broken Orchestra. The damaged instruments had been sitting unused in the city’s schools. “There was no money to fix them,” Robert Blackson told TFK. He is the director of shows at Temple Contemporary. It’s an art gallery (展览馆) at Philadelphia’s Temple University. In March 2015, Blackson created Symphony for a Broken Orchestra to give the instruments a second chance at life. The goal is to get the whole city of Philadelphia to care about these broken instruments.
Since Blackson began the project, his team at Temple Contemporary has collected more than 1,000 broken school instruments. Blackson worked with musicians and recording engineers to record people playing them.
So far, these efforts (努力) have raised more than $250,000. That’s enough to cover the cost of 800 repairs. “If that continues, we will have all of the instruments fixed up for the start of the school year in the fall,” Blackson says.
But Symphony for a Broken Orchestra is restoring (修复) more than just instruments, says bass player Joseph Conyers. He is a member of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Conyers believes the project is highlighting (强调) the importance of school music programs. Money provided for music education in Philadelphia dropped from $1.3 million in 2010 to $110,000 this year. “Repairing the instruments is the start of a conversation about the role music can play to help young people,” Conyers says.
Blackson hopes the project helps people see the broken instruments as chances rather than as problems. “Learning how to play music changes us,” he says. “We hope that every child can be changed through music.”
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