Parents have long treated piano recitals and violin lessons as a kind of academic insurance policy, a cultural bet that ...

Alton private violin instructor Kelsey Waits runs her violin studio out of a small room at the front of her house. With a focus on teaching, Waits dedicates part of her life, and her house, to ...

Music lessons are sometimes sold as a sort of cognitive training. Put a child in front of a piano, the story goes, and ...