Parents and grandparents sometimes debate which musical instrument is the most painful in the hands of a beginner. "Our ...

One effective exercise is to hold the violin bow in your left hand (or right for left-handed players) and practice the ...

Our twin granddaughters took up the French horn last fall and sometimes bring them to the house because what’s a little more noise at Grandma’s?

A Gift for Music has been a fixture in local schools providing free instruments and music lessons to students.

A month after the Palisades fire, the Palisades Symphony Orchestra performed a two-hour program dedicated to musicians who ...

The young Spanish violinist Maria Dueñas has a new album out called "Paganini: 24 Caprices" on Deutsche Grammophon records, but this two-CD set includes much more. TPR's Nathan Cone spoke to Dueñas ...

The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Arkansas has announced the following classes: Feb. 24: The Byzantine Empire: Its History and Influence Today -- The Byzantine Empire, or the ...

The Jupiter String Quartet gave a concert in Foellinger Great Hall on Feb. 4 of music written for a string sextet by Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg and Johannes Brahms.

The English guitarist, songwriter, and song interpreter Jim Ghedi came to folk music through a side door. He grew up playing ...

Music can connect us in ways that conversation cannot. It opens doors directly into the human soul; allowing us to transcend ...

Notes rising above all others, two local students join the ranks of some of the top musical minds of their generation…  The ...

Last night, the New York Philharmonic offered a program with an accent on the mysterious and the French. Guest-conducting was ...