It’s the season for giving, and Stephens Auditorium is extending a helping hand to aspiring young musicians. For the second year, Stephens is holding a Used Instrument Drive. Donated instruments will ...

What is it: Play It Forward — Classical MPR's Musical Instrument Drive. People with old instruments can donate them to their local schools. Instruments being accepted: brass, woodwinds, string ...

Logan Tufte, a senior at Triton High School in Dodge Center, Minnesota, stands by a banner promoting his senior project to collect instruments for the school district's band programs. DODGE CENTER, ...

Sarah Starbuck is an educator at Thornton Middle School. At her school, she witnesses first hand what the decline in funding for education does for programs like music. “[It] adversely affects kids ...

Hallmark senior artist Matt Kesler places handlebars atop a pair of French horns, in preparation for the final stage of a piece he calls “The French Peddler.” The work goes up for auction July 12 at ...

Owner of Dave’s Music Workshop fixes mostly band instruments for Sonoma County schools and local music programs. Dave Haymaker of Dave’s Music Workshop fixes mostly band instruments — trumpets, ...