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| "Youth is hot and bold," Shakespeare wrote. He might have also mentioned it's highly marketable... |
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| Amateur musicians are often among the most sensitive and trustworthy chroniclers of the art... |
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| Every year on the first Saturday in May since 1875, the eyes of the world are on the state of Kentucky for approximately two minutes to find out which jockey will capture the coveted first prize (and the lion’s share of the now $2,000,000 purse) in the Kentucky Derby... |
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| CREATIVE play such as music, art and drama can help children deal with traumatic experiences in their lives... |
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| The new pipe organ for the Great Hall of Vienna's Musikverein, home of the Vienna Philharmonic, stands 36 feet high and weighs about 28 tons, with 6,138 pipes and tens of thousands of pieces... |
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| After serving a 14-year sentence for murder, no one would have expected Sarah Jane Coffman to go anywhere near the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center in Eagle River, Alaska, once she was released... |
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| Occasionally you come across non-pianists who play the piano better than the professionals... |
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| When Robert Gupta was caught between a career as a doctor and as a violinist, he realized his place was in the middle... |
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| JOSEPH GOEBBELS, in a pinstripe suit, his hair slicked back, gave a simple but philosophical speech about the importance of music. Then, smiling, he handed over the violin to a young woman... |
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| When children learn to play a musical instrument, they strengthen a range of auditory skills. Recent studies suggest that these benefits extend all through life, at least for those who continue to be engaged with music... |
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| Loving opera is such a simple thing. And yet the conventional wisdom seems to strive to make it complicated... |
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| Lapsed musical instrumentalists (and their disappointed parents): Take heart! The child that gets even a few years of formal musical training before quitting those weekly lessons continues to show evidence that his or her brain has been changed in ways that improve mental function... |
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| AUSTRALIA has a million pianos, but sounding the right note is an increasing problem because of a drastic shortage of qualified piano tuners... |
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| Music criticism may just have outlived its usefulness... |
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| Yes, but what about the louts in the brass section? Orchestra members, so unified when on stage, enjoy poking fun at one another when off... |
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| John Cage gamely admitted that his teacher Schoenberg was right – he 'had no ear’ and was not so much a composer as an inventor... |
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| THERE is increasing evidence from health professionals that music can reduce chronic pain and depression... |
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| When vocal cords are damaged the impact can last a lifetime. It is not like a replacing a violin or restringing a guitar. |
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| In a state of panic and fearing catastrophe, I am writing this midflight as I travel from Calgary, Alberta, to Los Angeles on American Airlines... |
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| Gibbons are jungle divas. The small apes use the same technique to project their songs through the forests of southeast Asia as sopranos at the Metropolitan Opera or La Scala... |
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| “The opera?” the main character of Kenneth Lonergan’s recent film, “Margaret,” sourly asks her mother. “Why are you going to the opera?” |
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| Sunday night’s concert at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre was billed as “Il Divo and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra,”... |
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| Several years ago, Dr. Cheryl Willman commissioned composer/violinist Marc Neikrug to write a dedication piece for the opening of the University of New Mexico's new Cancer Center in Santa Fe... |
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| As a teenager seeking his first place at a school for young pianists, Nicholas McCarthy was refused an audition and told he would never succeed... |
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| A PIANO sat at the centre of things in our family. It still does. Any excuse for a gathering set the piano singing. Birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas, Easter… |
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| THE guy in the next cubicle is yammering away on the phone. Across the room, someone begins cursing loudly at a jammed copy machine... |
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| If you sing, dance, draw, or act -- and especially if you watch others do so -- you probably have an altruistic streak, according to a study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago... |
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| A musicologist at Oxford University explains why music feels so important to all our lives – and discusses the six songs that matter most to him... |
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| London is one of the highest-ranking cities for outputs of theatre, dance and music performances... |
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| Did Bartok have it right when he famously declared that “competitions are for horses, not artists”? |
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