Six months of piano lessons can heighten kindergartners' brain responses to different pitches, and improve their ability to tell apart two similar-sounding words. Christopher Intagliata reports.

The ANU music school cannot replace live one-on-one teaching with online lessons. Flickr/Orangedrummerboy The Australian National University (ANU) has recently announced serious changes to the School ...

ROCHESTER — “A piano is just a piano,” says James Baldwin’s narrator in his short story “Sonny’s Blues.” Almost in the same breath, the narrator urges the musician “to try and make it do everything.” ...