Classical music may or may not make you smarter, but it almost certainly will change the way you hear pop music. Spend even a little time studying the works of the major composers and you'll gain not ...

At its core, “Keyboard Conversations” is part recital, part storytelling session. Siegel sits at the piano, offering not just performance, but insight: the context of a composer’s life; the hidden ...

“Keyboards” covers everything from pianos and synthesizers to harpsichords and organs. Modern popular recorded music has utilized all of these sounds, and keys have particularly enhanced the pull of ...

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is one of the most adaptable of composers, his keyboard sonatas responding both to “historically aware” interpretation on instruments of the Baroque period and to ...