PHOENIX — It’s hard to imagine that soup cans, plastic paint tubs and spoons can be key pieces to musical instruments. Forks and spatulas can hold strings in place; buttons and caps fit nicely along a ...

A Paraguayan children’s orchestra that found worldwide fame for performing on instruments cobbled together from trash will perform in Colorado in September. The Recycled Orchestra of Cateura plays ...

A lack of actual instruments hasn’t stopped the young musicians of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, Paraguay from achieving national and international fame. Using musical instruments made entirely ...

Catch the Recycled Instruments Orchestra of Cateura perform 8:30 p.m. on Saturday at Victorian Room at The Driskill. Music has transformed the lives of an entire community in Paraguay after the launch ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Ring Elementary School music teacher, Kristen Brunacini, and art teacher, Rebecca Whitman, collaborated together to create a fun and educational project for third grade students that combined English ...