Since 2000, the UC San Diego Library has hosted the Toy Piano Festival to pay homage to the birthday of experimental composer John Cage, who wrote “Suite for Toy Piano” in 1948. Its Geisel Library toy ...

A GOOD craftsman doesn’t blame his tools. The saying holds especially true for Margaret Leng Tan, the Singapore-born, New ...

For modern composers, toy pianos are more than just child’s play. Toy pianos have been manufactured since the late 1800s, when a German toymaker started a business in Philadelphia. But in 1948, ...

Every musician has a particular set of tasks and warm-ups before a performance or practice session—oiling the valves, rosining the bow, tuning, long tones, scales, stretches. For Kelly Moran, a ...

Join UC San Diego Library for their 25th annual Toy Piano Festival. This annual event pays homage to UC San Diego’s history with the adorable instrument, which dates back to 1966 when composer Robert ...

The Demuth Museum, the Wolf Museum and the Lancaster Theological Seminary are joining forces on Wednesday to celebrate the 100th birthday of composer John Cage in a variety of ways at the seminary, ...

LA JOLLA —- Serious pianists will get seriously silly thisweek at UC San Diego’s 11th annual Toy Piano Festival. The free event, conceived of and hosted by UCSD libraryassistant Scott Paulson, will ...

The sound of a toy piano may conjure the magic and innocence of childhood: You see toy pianos in playrooms, not concert halls. But John Cage wrote a suite for toy pianos in 1948. In 2001, a toy piano ...

Aaron Rosenberg is 51 and still playing with toys. He does it so well that organizers recently invited the music department adjunct faculty member perform his “The Crail Family, 1910” composition at ...