Playing along with the Mozart effect. If you want music to sharpen your senses, boost your ability to focus and perhaps even improve your memory, you need to be a participant, not just a listener.

TEF brings Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Conor Neylon) and his wife, Constanze (Emily Taylor), to its next free Family Series program March 25 to teach children about classical music, string instruments ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began composing music at age 5, and even if he was a prodigy, that biographical tidbit encapsulates the main point about music and how it affects children's abilities.

Founding director of the Chester Children’s Chorus, John Alston says he’s as proud of the group’s academic achievements as its musical ones.

CATEURA, Paraguay -- The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks ...

Mozart’s Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major has been credited with having many positive effects, including alleviating epilepsy symptoms. But a new meta-analysis out of Vienna has concluded that there ...

Musical summers in New York may never have been as rich as they were in the first two decades of the current century, when the Mostly Mozart Festival, under the leadership of Jane Moss, and the ...

The Elgin Symphony Orchestra continues its 76th season Classics Series with a program of elegance, joy, and lyrical beauty on ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The creator behind the series “Bluey” on Disney+ says, “I didn’t want the usual kids’ TV scoring.” Joff Bush (above), the composer for “Bluey,” said he draws from classical ...

Freelance percussionist Naoto Segawa talks about the march that put him on the road to becoming a professional musician.