Which sentence supports the idea that the instruments are part of what
makes the Recycled Orchestra
special?
Read the selection and choose the best answer to each
question.
In 2006 ecologist and musician Favio Chávez helped train gancheros, or recycling-
center wvorkers, to safely search landfills in Cateura, Paraguay. Chávez wanted to
teach music lessons to the students in Cateura, but he did not have enough
instruments, so he asked a local carpenter, Nicolás Gómez, to help make new
instruments out of items recycled from the landfiM. This group of students called
the Recycled Orchestra has performed in several other countries, including Brazil,
the Netherlands, Great Britain, Israel, and Norway. Some of the orchestra's
instruments have been showcased at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix,
Arizona. In 2012 Paraguayan filmmaker Alejandra Amarilla Nash made Landfill
Harmonic, a documentary about the Recycled Orchestra.
The group has performed in
Brazil, Panama, and
Colonn
A)
.seer
(B) As more children wanted to
participate, Chávez knew
that more instruments were
needed.
Read this selection to find out more about the Recycled Orchestra and its
members.
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Violin is far Qut of the reach
Of many eu**e.
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Harmony Reclaimed
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