On a recent evening in a second-floor room of the University United Methodist Church in Chapel Hill, Joshua Pongsitiphon tries out the final chords of a funeral march on a slightly out-of-tune piano.

For Graysin Slade, the time to help others is now — and with his decades of experience behind the guitar, that means putting music in the hands of others: “You can’t just say, ‘When I have enough ...

ORANGE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE DEVELOPING A LIFELONG APPRECIATION FOR THE ARTS. AND SHELDON DUTES IS WITH US NOW TO HIGHLIGHT THE LOCAL NONPROFIT THAT’S MAKING ALL OF THIS POSSIBLE. AS I’VE BEEN ...

Online music curriculum and resources can offer parents and students affordable music education at home. But while art curriculum can be easily found online, music curriculum seems to be more ...

ROCHESTER — “A piano is just a piano,” says James Baldwin’s narrator in his short story “Sonny’s Blues.” Almost in the same breath, the narrator urges the musician “to try and make it do everything.” ...