About 130 years ago, the job of pianist was automated when Edwin Votey created the first player piano. The machine worked by reading music that was encoded by holes punched into rolls of paper, which ...

Taking a liking to music was inevitable, but for Kate Bush, music was not just an art form; it was a source of personal reckoning. Read more here.

She’s one of pop’s most fiercely honest songwriters, transmitting messy truths with a powerhouse voice. Now, after a public setback and recovery, she has a lot more to give ...

From Groundhog Day to hogging the cookies, Rochester-based songwriter Pat Egan seems to have written tunes about more subjects than seems possible. He guesses he’s written about 700 songs and still ...

Fifty years ago I played a young Rowan Atkinson and Richard Curtis my teenage love songs – and so began my TV composing career ...

Guest artist Tony DeSare will join the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra in concert at Stambaugh Auditorium on Friday.

Bernard Rands, who has died aged 92, was a Yorkshire-born composer rooted in the European modernist tradition who spent much of his career in the US; in 1984 he won a Pulitzer Prize with Canti del ...

Will this finally be Diane Warren’s year at the Oscars, when she goes up against “Golden” from K-Pop Demon Hunters and “I Lied To You,” from Sinners?  (Probably not).  Host Robin Hilton is joined by ...

Step back to years with the song that everyone couldn’t stop hearing, now brought to life on piano. This tutorial breaks down the melody, chords, and rhythm, making it easy for beginners and advanced ...

Author Margena A. Christian revisits the legacy of Sylvia Moy, the Motown trailblazer behind classics by Stevie Wonder.

Squeeze's Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook talk about 'Trixies,' a loose concept album of songs they wrote in the 1970s but never recorded until now.

Held on Staffordshire farmland and attended by 35,000 people, it marked the UK live debut of the Grateful Dead. The other significant event was the appearance of a hitherto unknown band, Mungo Jerry, ...