When Clemency Burton-Hill returned to piano lessons as an adult, she found herself in good company. Grown-ups everywhere are learning the instrument to relieve stress, focus their minds – and for the ...

A new study shows evidence that learning to play the piano could preserve memory function in healthy older adults. There is already proof that learning a musical instrument is associated with the ...

Dwight Bell, 64, first heard Mozart’s Sonata in A-major, K. 331, 30 years ago in an episode of The Twilight Zone in which the dolls in a dollhouse come to life. He eventually wanted to play it — a ...

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 ...

For every child who must be bribed with ice cream to practice, there is an adult who regrets not having learned to play the piano. But who says it’s too late? Certainly not the 13 people who completed ...