The musical instruments kids play in school bands and orchestras are traveling denizens of bacteria and fungi, say the authors of a new study. Music education is great for kids, they note, but please, ...

Music students in public schools often play with bad or broken instruments, so one group in New York set out to fix that. Music education is part of most public schools in this country. Does a kid ...

Having a kid ask about a classical piece you're enjoying can make for a magical little moment. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. They might inquire if you liked the tune when ...

Many parents enroll their children in lessons, but what happens at home determines how much a child truly grows musically. The environment, encouragement, and habits cultivated outside formal ...

Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

MILWAUKEE - The Wisconsin Conservatory of Music held an instrument drive Saturday, Oct. 7. Giving the gift of music, the goal was to provide young aspiring musicians the tools to play and own an ...

The Kaufman Music Center on the Upper West Side has put 10 brass instruments in 10 New York City kids' hands since the fall. They are 10 kids who have always wanted to learn how to play an instrument ...

When Mark DiGiorgio was a student at Webster Elementary School in Syracuse, he wanted to learn to play the saxophone. At the time, he said, the city school district lent families instruments for a ...

Music training seems to boost reading skills in young children by enhancing their ability to recognise and manipulate the sounds that make up words. Learning to play an instrument has long been linked ...

Baldwinsville, NY — The cost of renting a musical instrument can be a deterrent to students who want to play in a band or orchestra. That’s not the case anymore in the Baldwinsville schools, where ...