“I wish my parents hadn’t let me quit piano lessons.” “I wish I’d never given up the piano.” “I always wanted to play, but it’s probably too late now.” Over the course of three decades as a music ...

ANN ARBOR (WWJ)-- George Gershwin's legacy is his music, having composed some of the most iconic music in American history, including Rhapsody In Blue, Porgy and Bess, and Three Preludes. Now Gershwin ...

Pianist Leon Fleisher turns 80 years old today. He's considered one of the great pianists of the past century, although for a significant portion of his career he was forced to play with only one hand ...

The Donna Weng Friedman ’80 Masterclass Series presents a masterclass with celebrated pianist, Shai Wosner, on Sunday, November 9th, at 2PM. The Series provides students from across campus the unique ...

Anyone who has ever studied piano might get this: You on a bench, sitting upright, wrists just so, eyes bouncing between 88 keys fingers and the sheet music, dreading the crossover move, perhaps ...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Phil Klein is 89, but he doesn't act like it. On one mid-December day, Klein is zooming around the halls of Maple Downs in Fayetteville in his electric wheelchair, yelling, "Flank ...

In India, jazz music traces its roots to the ritzy hotels of port cities where it regaled the country’s elite in the early 1920s. That is quite a detour from the genre’s origin in New Orleans by the ...