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.
The musicians picked up some new fans recently when they played their third Shred Stock in the parking lot at Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota.
The members of Paraguay’s Cateura Orchestra of Recycled Instruments are no older than 20 years of age but these inventive musicians make their own instruments out of solid waste including cellos, ...
Noelia Rios, 12, tunes her guitar made of recycled materials as she practices with “The Orchestra of Instruments Recycled From Cateura” in Cateura, a vast landfill outside Paraguay’s capital of ...
Taiwanese residents holding plastic bags of rubbish stand on a footpath as a yellow garbage truck playing classical music over a loudspeaker pulls up. For decades, the tinkling of Beethoven's "Fur ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Three dudes sporting coveralls are playing a song called “Stop Making Trash” at the parking lot of the Van Wezel Performing Arts ...