Remember those music lessons your parents forced on you as a kid? Even if you haven't kept up with practicing, the lessons may have provided a boost to your speech abilities as an adult. A study ...

The Tiger Mothers were right all along: Music lessons as a kid may make you a sharper grown-up. A new study finds that older adults with musical experience perform better on some cognitive tests than ...

Inside a small Italian Market storefront on a December Friday night, there is confusion. A world away from the neighboring produce stands that sit dark and empty, the space inside is warm and raucous.

Scientists have observed that reading ability scales with socioeconomic status. Yet music might help close the gap, according to Nina Kraus and her colleagues at Northwestern University. Kraus's team ...

Ari Goldman is a member of the Late Starters Orchestra for adults who want to take up a musical instrument. The musicians play in a strictly enforced egalitarian and non-judgmental environment. By our ...

Welcome to the youth + adult piano program at the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music! The CU Boulder youth + adult piano program (YPP) trains students through weekly group and private ...

Before I was old enough to harness the power to adjust the egg timer that sat in judgment over my daily organ practice (my mother had a poor sense of time), I slavishly divided my attention between ...

Some 15 years ago, a very dedicated and thoughtful young student came to learn the piano. His curiosity and sensitivity to the instrument and to making music made a lasting impression on me. During ...

School of Rock Eden Prairie offers free trial music lessons during Teach Music Week, a global initiative encouraging new musicians to start playing.