Beautifully photographed and sonically stellar, German docu “Kinshasa Symphony” profiles the Orchestre Symphonique Kimbanguiste, a 200-member outfit based in the capital of the Democratic Republic of ...

Watch an excerpt from an amazing documentary about a singular African amateur orchestra — and the struggles the musicians endure. An amazing new documentary film is a must-see not just for music ...

KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's sweltering riverside capital is more accustomed to the pulsating rhythms of some of Africa's most famous Soukous and Rumba musicians than the more genteel strains of ...

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In this 2009 documentary, African musicians are rehearsing the last movement of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for an upcoming outdoor concert in Kinshasa, capital of Zaire. Some, having lost instruments ...

"Kinshasa Symphony" shows how people living in one of the most chaotic cities in the world have managed to forge one of the most complex systems of human cooperation ever invented: a symphony ...

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