Research analyst Allison Aaron and Assistant Professor Reyna Gordon are studying how music and rhythm training could help children who struggle with language development. Their work is part of ...

Watch out Jay-Z, Diddy, Eminem! When Dick Van Dyke and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ drummer Chad Smith got together in the recording studio to make their new kids’ CD Rhythm Train, the result was unexpected ...

From hearing lullabies to the sing-song lilt of a parent’s voice, babies form strong connections with their caregivers through sound and song. Think about the way we instinctively bounce or rock fussy ...

I caught up with Cathy Kielar a couple of months ago when she led a workshop that I attended with my six-year-old at the American Tobacco campus in Durham. We had a great time learning all about ...

Mozart may have written his first musical compositions before he was 5, but did he take the delight that 4-year-old Hannah Volk of Branford takes in playing music on the piano both forward and ...

Corwin Pherson had never been to an overnight camp before. He was up at 5 a.m. the first morning, waiting for the rest of the cabin to wake up. The 9-year-old from Waterloo isn’t sure what it’s called ...

Lynnette Carr-Hicks never wanted to be a teacher. As a young woman growing up in Westbury, Carr-Hicks, now 54, had her sights set on a career in music. She studied at the prestigious Berklee College ...

Reyna Gordon was an aspiring opera singer fresh out of college when she began contemplating the questions that would eventually define her career. "I moved to Italy when I finished my bachelor of ...

Reyna Gordon was an aspiring opera singer fresh out of college when she began contemplating the questions that would eventually define her career. "I moved to Italy when I finished my bachelor of ...