Which toy pianos are best? Who said that the elegance of a grand piano was only for adults? These days, parents want to teach their children how to play music at a much younger age, and many want to ...
For modern composers, toy pianos are more than just child’s play. Toy pianos have been manufactured since the late 1800s, when a German toymaker started a business in Philadelphia. But in 1948, ...
If, like me, you grew up watching Charlie Brown cartoons on TV, then you may have also got your very first taste of classical music from the virtuoso hands of a certain blond-haired, ...
When I first visited Phyllis Chen‘s Queens apartment it slightly resembled the lab of a mad scientist, if you were to replace the bubbling beakers with toppling toy pianos. At times several of the ...
Aaron Rosenberg is 51 and still playing with toys. He does it so well that organizers recently invited the music department adjunct faculty member perform his “The Crail Family, 1910” composition at ...
The sound of a toy piano may conjure the magic and innocence of childhood: You see toy pianos in playrooms, not concert halls. But John Cage wrote a suite for toy pianos in 1948. In 2001, a toy piano ...
Paul Smith is the co-artistic director of the group Blush Opera, which sometimes produces concerts and events featuring toy pianos. A child’s toy may seem like an unlikely candidate for the classical ...
Think of the toy piano as the unicorn of the classical-music world. “It’s not commonplace to see a toy-piano concert,” Tristan McKay said. Three years ago, the New York-based pianist and multimedia ...
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