Practicing music is a microcosm of life itself. We can observe how we experience and live our musical life in direct comparison to how we live our everyday life. How we deal with the ups and downs of ...

Every time I hear Jacqueline du Pré play the Elgar Cello Sonata, I am moved to tears. The credit for my tears go to both du Pre and Edward Elgar-Elgar for composing such a masterpiece, and du Pré for ...

Parents have long treated piano recitals and violin lessons as a kind of academic insurance policy, a cultural bet that ...

Music practice and education constitute a dynamic field that intersects performance, pedagogy and cognitive science. Traditionally grounded in rigorous training routines, the discipline has ...

TO MASTER the violin takes 10,000 hours of practice. Put in that time and expertise will follow. This, at least, is what many music teachers—following Malcolm Gladwell’s prescription for achieving ...

Very few people will say they never listen to music. It's a popular, powerful and unifying art form. According to musician, music education and choral singing teacher and ensemble director Emmanuel ...

Music is often referred to as a “universal language” — one that transcends the difference of spoken language and unites us in our shared humanity. This universality extends beyond our common love of ...

An infamous chapter in Keilman family lore came when I was a disgruntled trumpet player in the junior high school band. My parents had forced me to take up an instrument and constantly badgered me to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Gold writes about wellness design and related housing topics. “A completed music room was always on my husband’s list to ...