The great travesty of the presidential election of 2012 is that no single candidate addressed a crisis that is silently destroying much of our heritage. Not even the Socialist Workers Party dared ...

Celebrating its 50th anniversary this year is Billy Joel’s “Piano Man.” The song remains important because the meaning behind the song is still relevant. Released in 1973 as part of Joel’s second ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson issued a statement calling out inaccuracies of a Washington Post column about a 13-year-old piano prodigy. The column, by Petula ...

“But see how the strings of the piano attach to the hitch pins on the frame at the far end, and then they’re stretched – with great tension – across the bridges to the tuning pins at this end. There ...

Playwright August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” comes down to this: A sister and brother, haunted by the violent disruption of their Mississippi childhoods, reunite in 1936 Pittsburgh. It’s a tense ...

Growing up as an Asian American, I took up the piano at a young age. Yes, it is a very stereotypical part of growing up in a middle-class Asian household, and I just so happen to be part of the ...

My father played the piano – very well, actually. His college best friend’s mother (we remembered her as “Granny Sterner”) was a concert pianist and she gave him lessons. He was a natural musician and ...