Piano

This week was an end to the iconic store FAO Schwarz on 5th Avenue in New York. While, I never stepped foot in FAO Schwarz in New York, I did go to the one in Kansas City and Las Vegas, however we probably all have a memory that took place in this amazing toy store...

Sedalia is very familiar with the sounds of Ragtime Music.  After all, we've had the Scott Joplin Festival every year and there are so many reminders of it all over town, you might actually see something about it every day.  It gets easy to take it for granted.  But then, all you need is a stirring performance... and your appreciation can get refreshed.

The University of Central Missouri Piano Institute is going on through, Friday, June 27 in Warrensburg. This program highlights the piano and allows students to focus on intensive piano study with daily private lessons, performance classes, and classes in music theory and piano literature...

We've seen some pretty odd bits of Beatles memorabilia hit the auction block over the years, but this is one sale that seems legit: the piano Paul McCartney and John Lennon played during 'Help!' -- and which McCartney reportedly later used while writing 'Yesterday' -- is about to find a new home.

Forget Costco. This kid should be playing 'America's Got Talent.'

Billy Joel has long taken an interest in educating younger generations of musicians. This runs from his acclaimed Evening of Questions and Answers and a Little Bit of Music series to today’s news that he has given a piano to the music department of Stony Brook University on his native Long Island.

Although has sworn off the idea of doing another full-scale rock tour, Billy Joel still does his acclaimed 'An Evening of Questions and Answers and a Little Bit of Music' series at colleges. At a recent event, a fan wound up playing one of Joel's signature songs with the legendary musician.

After decades of disrepair, the ebonies and ivories on a piano used by many of Motown’s biggest acts are living in perfect harmony again — thanks to a repair job paid for by Paul McCartney, who will play the instrument at a benefit gala later this month.