This post initially appeared on the Curriculum Matters blog. Studying music seems to have helped accelerate the cognitive development, and particularly the auditory- and speech and language-processing ...

In a study called 'the largest investigation of the association between playing a musical instrument and brain development,' a child psychiatry team has found that musical training might also help ...

Parents who have patiently sat through countless music recitals and questioned their sanity at encouraging all those trumpet or violin lessons need do so no longer. Even ear-splitting dissonance has ...

Should children study violin—or rather, be forced to study violin? Or forced to study ballet? Mark Oppenheimer published a piece in The New Republic the other day asking this question in the urgent ...

The University of Pennsylvania's Parkinson Disease and Movement Disorders Center periodically hosts a retreat for its patients, an escape from the humdrum of treatment. At a retreat in 2013, the ...

Amy Matherly began her career as a violin teacher in the public schools on Long Island. She is currently Suzuki Program Coordinator at Pakachoag Music School of Greater Worcester in Auburn, where she ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - A teenager from Southwest Philadelphia will be taking her talent across the pond to study at one of the most prestigious music schools in the world, The Royal College of Music in ...