After years of whining about those dreaded childhood piano lessons, or after missing the experience altogether, the thirtysomething crowd is sitting down to scales and sonatas. Without being ...

An increasing number of adults are taking piano lessons to relax, focus their minds and express themselves. BBC Culture’s Clemency Burton-Hill is one of them.

Ten times a year, van der Linde runs the Sonata, an intensive 10-day piano camp for adult students. They come from all over the globe to escape their normal lives, find community with other ...

When Paula Fay started taking piano lessons for the first time in her late fifties, it fulfilled a lifelong dream. "I always wanted to learn how to play as a child, but my parents couldn't afford ...

More adults taking music lessons Melissa Balmain If anyone deserves to be in this practice room at the Hochstein School of Music & Dance, standing beside a grand piano and joyfully belting out "O ...

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Adults comprise about a quarter of the 2,682 students at Peabody Prep, for example, up from 15 percent of the enrollment 20 years ago. ... “Piano lessons are tough on adolescents,” he says.

Something unusual is happening in the world of music lessons. It’s not little Sally sitting at the piano practicing these days — it’s her mom or dad. In what is becoming something of a ...