According to new research, elderly people who learned the piano saw no change in the density of their brain's white matter. White matter, which can be found in the fornix of the brain, can protect ...

This week, as we near the end of 2024, the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on One Beautiful Thing from the year. n June, after a three-decade rest, I started playing the ...

Objects have extraordinary power when they’ve been cherished and touched by human hands. That’s the underlying conceit of August Wilson’s play The Piano Lesson, in which a piano passed down through ...

Wyatt Christensen, 16, will perform George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" with the Utah Symphony on Wednesday. He is one of ...

As part of our ongoing work to digitize our film archives, here is a set of photos taken 50 years ago during this week in ...

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