Mr. Miller is a Grammy-nominated drummer and the founder of a music education company. Each fall, as school starts up again, music educators witness a familiar ritual: Eager first-time students squeak ...

Music education is definitely not a sexy sell in the philanthropic world, where more immediate causes grab headlines and dollars. But VH1 Save the Music and the Grammy Foundation’s Grammy in the ...

I have a 12-year-old who lives for choir and musical theater. She’s been taking piano lessons for four years and has never really been into it the way she is into singing. She loves to play the piano, ...

How do you get young children to cooperate with each other? Swinging on swing sets in synchrony might help. That's what Andrew Meltzoff, the co-director of the University of Washington Institute for ...

It was date night for me and my husband, the first since our daughter was born. When we returned to my mom’s house for the baby — hurriedly, being first-time parents — I heard a strange but familiar ...

Children want to make and consume art naturally. They scribble with crayons and paper, play different roles in their pretend, sing, and dance to music. Children have their own version of aesthetic ...

- The ancient Greek philosopher Plato said: “Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” This is ...

In 2014, police killed 12-year-old Tamir Rice as he played with a toy gun at a Cleveland recreation center. Ma’Khia Bryant was 16 when she was killed by police, also in Ohio. In Orlando, six-year-old ...