Taiwan’s musical garbage trucks have been an almost daily feature of life on the island since the 1960s – Copyright AFP I-Hwa Cheng Taiwanese residents holding ...

Young musicians from South America are going from the slums to the biggest stages of classical music by turning trash into melody. The group is tuning up for a concert in the Valley this summer.

Taiwanese residents holding plastic bags of rubbish stand on a footpath as a yellow garbage truck playing classical music over a loudspeaker pulls up. For decades, the tinkling of Beethoven's "Fur ...