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 ...

When I first visited Phyllis Chen‘s Queens apartment it slightly resembled the lab of a mad scientist, if you were to replace the bubbling beakers with toppling toy pianos. At times several of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The first step in describing silence,” says California-born Composer John Cage, “is to use silence itself. Matter of fact, I thought of composing a piece like that. It would be very beautiful, and I ...