Last weekend, a special performance unfolded in Central San Rafael. The location was unusual: it's where collection bins full of waste, recycling and compost are brought.

The Orquesta de Intstrumentos Reciclados de Cateura, or Recycled Orchestra, the Cateura, Paraguay-founded youth orchestra who perform with instruments made from recycled materials, performed at the ...

“The world sends us garbage. We send back music,” says Favio Chavez, music director of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, in Landfill Harmonic. Cateura is an enormous landfill dump sited in the ...

Featured in numerous news articles, NPR and 60 Minutes, the story of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura is one of how art can elevate the human spirit despite crippling poverty. And the musicians are ...

Recycled violins made from discarded materials © Landfill Harmonic http://www.landfillharmonicmovie.com/ On the first day of class in my ‘Psychology of Music ...

When you think of an orchestra, you're probably picturing refined woodwinds, brass, and strings. But one ensemble I recently met is made up mostly of kids who play instruments made out of literal ...

Young musicians from South America are going from the slums to the biggest stages of classical music by turning trash into melody. The group is tuning up for a concert in the Valley this summer.

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