At the age of 15, Louis became Leonard Bernstein. As a child, Leonard was always interested in music and was frequently taken to concerts. He began to play piano and attended the Garrison School, Boston Latin School, Harvard University, and the Curtis Institute of Music. In his life, Bernstein accomplished a great deal. When “West [...]

The great reality competition that has been on for the past few months hit a nail biting climax this December, when Alexandra Burke was crowned the new X Factor winner. She beat fierce competition from JLS and Eoghan Quigg. More than 12 million people tuned in for the final, with more than 8 million casting [...]

Irving Berlin started making music long before he learned to play an instrument. Before rising to the heights of superstardom, Irving (then Israel Beilin) was just another son of an immigrant in the United States. Through stubborn determination to express his music, Irving eventually taught himself to play the piano and became one of the [...]

Take that got back together a few years ago and they have enjoyed award winning success and great hits since 2005. Old band member Robbie Williams who separated from the group, which then ended up splitting has indicated that he would love to return to the band. The story began in 1994-1995 when Robbie Williams [...]

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 15, 1921, Erroll Louis Garner was destined to be an amazing jazz pianist and composer. By the age of three, Erroll was playing the piano successfully. Like many successful composers and musicians, he did not choose to follow traditional teaching methods to learn the piano. He was a self-taught [...]

Seems like not that long ago I was lugging my acoustic guitar from my friend’s house eager to learn how to play with my new toy and stopping off at the local music store to pick up a guitar book. Now ten years later the thought of going to a music shop to buy a [...]

Purchasing a piano is a big investment with even the most basic having the potential to run you a couple of thousand dollars. You want to keep the instrument working properly and looking good. If you don’t take care of it, all you’ll have is a big ugly dust catcher and if you ever decide [...]

This much-loved song was literally written on a ‘Silent Night.’ If a church pipe organ had not malfunctioned, our society probably would not have this beloved Christmas carol. It may be that the silence of the broken pipe organ gave Reverend Joseph Mohr the inspiration to write the lyrics to “Silent Night” in 1818. In [...]

A hammered dulcimer is a musical instrument that can very well function more than a musical instrument. A hammered dulcimer does not only produce musical sounds, it acts as a very beautiful home decor that can give a sense of style and character to a room. But the question is, Why bother with an instrument [...]

A folk harp is no different from lever harp and Celtic harp, which come in many designs. A folk harp differs maybe different from another mainly in its use of either levers or pedals. Both levers and pedals are used to pull the strings to make them shorter and therefore produce higher keys. It is [...]