Which toy pianos are best? Who said that the elegance of a grand piano was only for adults? These days, parents want to teach their children how to play music at a much younger age, and many want to ...
Phyllis Chen knew her way around a grand piano from a young age as she is a classically trained pianist. Phyllis Chen knew her way around a grand piano from a young age as she is a classically trained ...
Paul Smith is the co-artistic director of the group Blush Opera, which sometimes produces concerts and events featuring toy pianos. A child’s toy may seem like an unlikely candidate for the classical ...
The sound of a toy piano may conjure the magic and innocence of childhood: You see toy pianos in playrooms, not concert halls. But John Cage wrote a suite for toy pianos in 1948. In 2001, a toy piano ...
If, like me, you grew up watching Charlie Brown cartoons on TV, then you may have also got your very first taste of classical music from the virtuoso hands of a certain blond-haired, ...
Aaron Rosenberg is 51 and still playing with toys. He does it so well that organizers recently invited the music department adjunct faculty member perform his “The Crail Family, 1910” composition at ...
It started as a call for help. On an otherwise ordinary day in 1999, University of California San Diego’s Geisel Library lost its help-desk service bell. Fortunately, library exhibits and events ...
Toy pianos are fun to plink around on for a minute, but their small keyboards and even smaller sound make them musically uninteresting pretty quickly. [Måns Jonasson] found a way to jazz up a ...