The musical instruments kids play in school bands and orchestras are traveling denizens of bacteria and fungi, say the authors of a new study. Music education is great for kids, they note, but please, ...

Music students in public schools often play with bad or broken instruments, so one group in New York set out to fix that. Music education is part of most public schools in this country. Does a kid ...

Remember the recorder? It's that small plastic instrument — looks kind of like a flute or clarinet — that's often the first instrument children learn to play in school. Or, at least, they used to. But ...

When Mark DiGiorgio was a student at Webster Elementary School in Syracuse, he wanted to learn to play the saxophone. At the time, he said, the city school district lent families instruments for a ...

About 1,000 students a year from across Miami-Dade County come to the Miami Music Project to learn a new instrument, get their homework done in a safe environment and pick up valuable life skills.

The Kaufman Music Center on the Upper West Side has put 10 brass instruments in 10 New York City kids' hands since the fall. They are 10 kids who have always wanted to learn how to play an instrument ...

Arielle Lewis from Education Through Music introduces a variety of musical instruments. Arielle Lewis from Education Through Music children to musical instruments including the guitar, violin, piano.

Baldwinsville, NY — The cost of renting a musical instrument can be a deterrent to students who want to play in a band or orchestra. That’s not the case anymore in the Baldwinsville schools, where ...

When Brendan Wheeler pitched an Eagle Scout project that would focus on collecting and repairing musical instruments to give to low-income children, he thought he’d collect 25 instruments at most. But ...