“The Last Repair Shop” focuses on the people who maintain the 140,000 musical instruments owned by Los Angeles Unified School District public schools. Funding for music and arts education has been ...

Good morning. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023. Don’t look now, but “abnormally dry” areas have expanded (though are still only a tiny portion overall) on California’s drought ...

"The Last Repair Shop," a film following a team of four people who repair and maintain instruments used by students in Los Angeles Unified School District music classes, won the Oscar for best ...

Background: Puzon, 37, owner of Puzon`s Musical Instrument Repair in Lansing, says he has been involved in music as long as he can remember. Besides fixing broken instruments, he gives music lessons ...

LOS ANGELES -- Anyone who's ever played an instrument knows how life-changing music can be. A dozen people in the nation's second-largest school district who work tirelessly to keep the melodies ...

Tim Adelson spends his workdays repairing musical instruments for students across the Clark County School District. The reason he does it? He wants to ensure more students stay in music programs. “It ...

In the Clark County School District musical instrument repair shop, the warble of a clarinet is as common a sound as the hiss of an acetylene torch. CCSD has more than 350 schools, most with band, ...

Nov. 4—The faint sounds of a tuba playing the songs of German composer Richard Wagner could be heard Monday through the halls of the Albuquerque Public Schools' Lincoln Complex. Chris Smith was ...

For Avery McDaniel, the back-to-school season is the busiest time of year for his musical instrument repair and rental shop in Beloit, Wisconsin. McDaniel Music Repair’s business renting and repairing ...

FARGO - Summertime is high-season for Glenn Miller, the sole string instrument technician at Christian Eggert Violins. While the area's young musicians are playing summer sports, pool-hopping and ...