The Pancake Ballet: Spring, Beethoven and Honoring Grandma
Spring has sprung. And with the shift in the weather, the daffodil blossoms, the window box we planted yesterday, comes magical renewed hope. And memories.
Spring has sprung. And with the shift in the weather, the daffodil blossoms, the window box we planted yesterday, comes magical renewed hope. And memories.
AP | DONNA BRYSON | Posted 04.17.2012
JOHANNESBURG — The 60-year-old beloved South African musician shows up five days a week to sit behind a scarred desk in a bare-bones classroom, ...
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 04.08.2012
Pull open the drapes! Betty Gelb wants to see the sunshine. She's as excited as a kid going to the circus because she's opened her eyes to another day. She's pushing 102, and, hey, you never know.
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 02.28.2012
Enrico de Trizio and Giancarlo de Trizio start jamming to the rhythm of their new-found city. The brothers -- Enrico on the melodica and Giancarlo on the cajón -- have never played to the sky before, but once they start, they don't want to stop.
Jade Simmons | Posted 02.20.2012
Maybe I was being delusional, or just romantically patriotic, but it seemed to me that artistry was reaching across the aisle quite successfully. Music appreciation abounded, but not a word about which candidate had flubbed the most recent debate.
Modiba | Posted 02.18.2012
New York Times | Posted 12.11.2011
For years, the donated piano sat upright and unused in a corner of the nursing home's cafeteria. Now and then someone would wheel or wobble over to po...
AP | Posted 12.29.2011
DETROIT — During a summer visit to a Motown recording studio, former Beatle Paul McCartney wanted to run his fingers along an 1877 Steinway gran...
Posted 12.24.2011
Akko Goldenbeld, a graduate student at the Design Academy Eindhoven, has created a realistic model of the city that doubles as a music roll for a play...
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 12.18.2011
Even when she's not on stage, Jenny, a Valkyrie whose waves of golden ringlets cascade down her shoulders, has quite a stage presence. Runway-model slim, she stands nearly six feet tall in her flat gold sandals.
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 06.26.2011
Don't let her age fool you. Henrietta Spilkia looks 75, and she's as vibrant as her hot-pink turtleneck and cherry-red lipstick.
Jon Chattman | Posted 06.15.2011
Yanni never imagined he'd ever be a part of a Charlie Sheen sandwich, but that's exactly where he found himself last Saturday night.
Posted 05.25.2011
To play the piano well is a challenge in and of itself. Pianists study diligently for years and consider themselves students even well into illustrio...
Robbie Gennet | Posted 05.25.2011
As I started playing in bands and writing songs, I developed skills at various jams and sessions that had me stumbling onward and upward as a player.
Allan M. Jalon | Posted 05.25.2011
the poetic lightness with which Biss played, ran in startling contradiction to the gravity I expected. It was like watching someone bend and gently turn over a single leaf in the middle of a storm.
Mark Steinberg | Posted 05.25.2011
While my self-esteem couldn't be detected by an atomic microscope, I did regard myself as a sure thing in some future Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog eating contest.
Dominique Browning | Posted 05.25.2011
Let me throw in my nomination for the fiercest kind of mother: the French mother. Here's what the Chinese/Jewish/French superiority models have in common.
Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011
Chuck Leavell has been a melodic force behind some of rock 'n' roll's biggest acts. But he is also a committed conservationist and tree farmer.
Charles Fabius | Posted 05.25.2011
Top leaders in the performing arts sat down with Chinese cultural officials, only to find out that China seems to be addressing the issues head-on in a fearless way. At least so it seems, watching Yu Long.
Posted 05.25.2011
SHANGHAI (AP) -- A musician who lost both arms in a childhood accident and plays the piano with his toes has won "China's Got Talent," performing his ...
Nancy Ruhling | Posted 05.25.2011
Michael Halberian wanders through the central hall of the fabled Steinway Mansion and flips the switch that turns on the 1,000-pound crystal chandelier, big and round as the sun. It's motorized.
Alan Elsner | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm generally suspicious of national stereotypes but a new CD recording of cello and piano works by Russian composers illuminates and gives life to th...
Posted 05.25.2011
SHANGHAI — Pianist Liu Wei sits quietly to compose himself before plunging into the music. Then he takes off a sock. The 23-year-old, whose arm...
Posted 05.25.2011
Developed by concert pianist Robert Taub, Improvox is the latest in incredibly advanced ways of experiencing music that have become available via iPad...
Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011
Already a legend for his Flight of the Bumblebee on an iPad with the San Francisco Symphony, Lang Lang is announcing the release of Version 2.0 of his best-selling iPad-only app, Magic Piano.
Alysia Reiner | Posted 05.26.2012