Richard Dreyfuss shines in this inspiring 1995 hit drama about Glenn Holland, a gifted musician aspiring to compose a great symphony, who takes a job teaching high school music and in spite of himself, discovers his true vocation – changing the lives of students through music. Part It’s a Wonderful Life and part Goodbye Mr....
Music of the Heart, starring Meryl Streep, is director Wes Craven’s 1999 film that tells the true story of Roberta Guaspari’s efforts that changed the lives of generations of Harlem schoolchildren through music. A single mother with little more than talent and the determination to make a difference, Guaspari has to overcome the skepticism of...
This award-winning 2015 documentary tells the story of the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, one of the world’s most remarkable and inspiring musical ensembles. In a deeply impoverished town of 2,500 on the edge of a massive landfill near the Paraguayan capital, Asunción, children have been learning to play violins, cellos, horns, and drums, all “recycled”...