When a group of students approached Errol Watts in September about starting a band class, the Norwood Elementary School principal was in a predicament. As a former band director, Watts knew the ...

Fletcher music teacher Sofia Isabella instructs her class on where to find the beginning of a C-major scale. “Can you find the two bunny ears?” asked Sofia Isabella to students in her fourth grade ...

When you enter the century-old Carnegie library that houses the National Music Museum, your first impulse might be to wonder why there's a cannon in the lobby. Upon further review, it turns out to be ...

Every once in a while, a single instrument arrives and rewrites the rules. Not just for music, but for culture itself. Think about it. A strip of brass and a few keys gave birth to jazz. A solid block ...

Joshua Isabelle plays his covered saxophone while masked during band class at North Country Union High School in Newport on Friday, March 4. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger For most of the 2021-22 ...

On more than five acres of verdant woodland in Delaware County toils one of the world’s most accomplished luthiers. Since arriving in the Philadelphia area in the late 1970s, Hiroshi Iizuka has ...

Jonaki Mehta is a producer for All Things Considered. Before ATC, she worked at Neon Hum Media where she produced a documentary series and talk show. Prior to that, Mehta was a producer at Member ...

A class at the Logan Heights Library is teaching students of all ages how to perform in a mariachi ensemble. KPBS education reporter Katie Anastas shares how the program is helping a father and ...

Music training has well-known benefits for the developing brain, especially for at-risk children. But youngsters who sit passively in a music class may be missing out, according to new research. In a ...