Nadja Sayej profiles composer David Lang, whose 'Symphony for a Broken Orchestra’ will be played by 400 musicians using broken instruments sourced from an American school district, intended to raise awareness about the lack of budget for musical education.
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... Keep reading on The Guardian