Last month, I signed up to perform Debussy’s Clair de Lune for my Presto piano performance group. Once I committed, I was motivated to practice this piece with intensity. Playing piano is an important ...

In 1998, four years into my life as a single mother, I bought a used upright piano for my daughter. It’s the closest I’ve ever come to feeling like I could fly. For two years, from age 9, Cait had ...

“Destroy your reputation: jazz, booze, and butter.” That’s the slogan for pianist Chad Willet’s new establishment, Le Piano. Located in Rogers Park’s Glenwood Avenue Arts District, Le Piano is an ...

Olivia Jones-Hall taps her Converse-covered foot on the piano pedal, engrossed in the music as her silver-ringed fingers glide over the ivory keys. The 14-year-old with thick brown curls spends hours ...

How piano lessons — and a middle school friendship — changed my life. By Jennifer Finney Boylan Contributing Opinion Writer “I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12,” ...

WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — Hard of hearing, Thomas Edison found a unique way to appreciate piano music. As someone played, the great inventor would lean in close to the instrument, right above the keys, and he ...

Anyone lucky enough to see one of Prince’s solo shows knows that he wasn’t just an unnaturally gifted songwriter, producer, guitarist, bassist, drummer, arranger and performer — he was a hell of a ...