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 ...

Mario Russell is sitting at the piano in Marjorie Liss’ fourth-floor studio at the preparatory school of the Peabody Institute listening intently to the viola part in the piece he is working on with ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study indicates that musical instruction for just a few years during childhood can have long-lasting benefits. Photo by Brian Ambrozy In the fourth grade, at age 9, I joined the school band and ...

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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 ...