Which toy pianos are best? Who said that the elegance of a grand piano was only for adults? These days, parents want to teach their children how to play music at a much younger age, and many want to ...
Think of the toy piano as the unicorn of the classical-music world. “It’s not commonplace to see a toy-piano concert,” Tristan McKay said. Three years ago, the New York-based pianist and multimedia ...
Aaron Rosenberg is 51 and still playing with toys. He does it so well that organizers recently invited the music department adjunct faculty member perform his “The Crail Family, 1910” composition at ...
When I first visited Phyllis Chen‘s Queens apartment it slightly resembled the lab of a mad scientist, if you were to replace the bubbling beakers with toppling toy pianos. At times several of the ...
, the toy piano is no toy, but "serious" isn't the right word to describe her concert at on Thursday. She's a serious musician, a classically trained pianist adept in traditional repertoire, and she's ...
The sound of a toy piano may conjure the magic and innocence of childhood: You see toy pianos in playrooms, not concert halls. But John Cage wrote a suite for toy pianos in 1948. In 2001, a toy piano ...
The 76-year-old has played everything from toys to teapots to become a famed avant-garde musician. Ahead of Australian shows she speaks about her toy piano collection, OCD and believing in fate At her ...