When Barbara Weller Crain plays the piano, she tries to get into the composer’s mind. “You have to make people hear the words of what you play,” she said with conviction. “You just don’t play da-de-da ...

A memento I retain, of my long past youth in Ireland, is a certificate of the Royal Irish Academy of Music confirming that I passed its “Local Center Examinations With Honors” relating to piano ...

Birds don't really need humans to teach them how to be musical. If anything, it's the other way around, as birdsong has inspired human musicality over the years. But there is one aspect of musical ...