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Music and Hearing
The biologist Dr. Nina Kraus illuminates how children and teenagers benefit from learning music in her book, Of Sound Mind.
Our guide explores in-ear monitors, hearing aids’ music setting, and hearing protection.
Our product review of ASI Audio’s 3DME In-Ear Monitor evaluates the system as an alternative to hearing aids for music.
A pianist with hearing loss switches to in-ear monitors for music after experiencing frustration with her hearing aids’ tinny sound quality
Musician, audio engineer, hearing aid user, and cochlear implant recipient Rick Ledbetter explains how he programs his hearing aids for music.
For musicians with hearing loss, we offer this expert-verified checklist to take to your audiologist to create a better music program on your hearing aids.
As I start my car in the morning to drive to work, I hear in my head the opening measures of the Prelude of the Bach D minor cello suite.
Get the top 5 tips for playing a musical instrument while wearing hearing aids, in this exclusive interview with an amateur pianist who has a hearing loss.
Piano Performance
In the summer of 2013, composer and pianist Gregg Kallor set out with filmmaker Alan McIntyre Smith to make a music video of “Broken Sentences,” a classical cum jazz inspired composition that is the second movement of Gregg’s Carnegie Hall-premiered suite, A Single Noon.
Three weeks ago I played piano in public for the first time. Much to my young children’s disappointment, my debut performance wasn’t in a recital room at my music school, nervously awaiting my turn to showcase my beginner skills among a lineup of their elementary school classmates.
After I learned the second movement of the Schubert Sonata in A Major, D664, my new piano teacher, Mark Pakman, explained I would now shift my practice of the Andante into “performance mode.”
For years, Ricker Choi, an amateur pianist from Canada, wanted to play a concerto with an orchestra, a dream shared by many students of adult piano lessons.
Best Poems and Short Fiction on Piano
Piano, a Poem
In this poem consisting of a single sentence, Dan Howell draws on a lived experience to describe the sound of an older woman playing.
The Piano Speaks, a Poem
In this poem bursting with nature imagery, Sandra Beasley channels the perspective of an old piano that is woken back to life by a master like Erik Satie.
Thanking My Mother for Piano Lessons, A Poem
In this poem for her mother, Diane Wakoski expresses gratitude for her childhood piano lessons that provided a respite from the ugliness of life.
Popular Articles
The initial idea was to make a short film. A nice little film crammed with beauty shots of the internal organs of a piano. I reckoned it would take about four days to shoot.
The Bach French Suites, groupings of short pieces originally most likely written for the harpsichord, now played on the piano, provide many of the benefits of studying more complicated music by Bach.
I am at East Coast Piano, a boxy, windowless warehouse store on New Jersey’s Route 46, because my husband, David, has insisted.
In this final article on how to find a good piano teacher, I describe how to make your decision after you take trial lessons from a short list of teachers.