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　　In 2013, Richard Blackson, the director of a US art gallery, visited 23 schools in Philadelphia. He found a room full of broken musical instruments(乐器) at each school. The schools said the instruments had been there for a long time. But Blackson also found that 1, 000 of the broken instruments could be repaired.

　　In fACT, many public schools in the United States don’ t have enough musical instruments because of budget cuts(预算削减). Several students often have to share one instrument. Thus, Blackson started a project called “ Symphony(交响乐) for a Broken Orchestra(管弦乐队)” , aiming to repair broken instruments for students.

　　To raise money, he reached out to David Lang, a Pulitzer Prize- winning US musician. The musician Lang came up with the idea of writing a symphony for the broken instruments. On Dec 3, 400 students and professional musicians held a concert. They performed Lang’ s Symphony for a Broken Orchestra, which shares its name with the repair project.