Remember those music lessons your parents forced on you as a kid? Even if you haven't kept up with practicing, the lessons may have provided a boost to your speech abilities as an adult. A study ...

If anyone deserves to be in this practice room at the Hochstein School of Music & Dance, standing beside a grand piano and joyfully belting out "O Sole Mio," it's 84-year-old Joe Mancini. As a boy in ...

Linda Walde of Enola says she always wanted to play piano, but other things got in the way. John Schwartz of Middletown finally has time for classical guitar. He's retired. For these music students ...

The Tiger Mothers were right all along: Music lessons as a kid may make you a sharper grown-up. A new study finds that older adults with musical experience perform better on some cognitive tests than ...

Lapsed musical instrumentalists (and their disappointed parents): Take heart! The child that gets even a few years of formal musical training before quitting those weekly lessons continues to show ...

When Midori Hall was 34, she decided to pursue her childhood dream. So, the Gilbert resident sat down and began to plunk away at the keys of a piano. Some 30 years later, she is still living that ...

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Scientists have observed that reading ability scales with socioeconomic status. Yet music might help close the gap, according to Nina Kraus and her colleagues at Northwestern University. Kraus's team ...

The research, which surveyed 1,500 UK adults, found that over three-quarters (77%) of people felt anxious when preparing for ...

Should children study violin—or rather, be forced to study violin? Or forced to study ballet? Mark Oppenheimer published a piece in The New Republic the other day asking this question in the urgent ...