In the early 1980s, my father got a Baldwin upright electric piano. My dad had played piano as a child and in college. He’d performed live, improvising soundtracks to silent movies at an art-house ...

WHEN MARIA DOLAN was 6 years old, she wanted to play the piano. Check that. She had to play the piano. Needed to play the piano. The world was going to stop revolving if she did not play the piano ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week, as we near the end of 2024, the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on One Beautiful Thing from the year. n June, after a three-decade rest, I started playing the ...

When Paula Fay started taking piano lessons for the first time in her late fifties, it fulfilled a lifelong dream. "I always wanted to learn how to play as a child, but my parents couldn't afford it," ...