NEW YORK — Perry Ritter’s tiny saxophone-repair shop in midtown Manhattan is as much a visual flight of fancy as a jazz solo is an auditory one. The shop — in the heart of the Diamond District, on ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Steve Bagmanyan found his calling in a shop of broken instruments, tucked away in an industrial section of downtown Los Angeles. But each year, the shop breaks his heart. Cutbacks have left just 11 ...