It’s the season for giving, and Stephens Auditorium is extending a helping hand to aspiring young musicians. For the second year, Stephens is holding a Used Instrument Drive. Donated instruments will ...

No, Brad Sears didn’t get his jaw wired into a permanent smile. It just looks like it. After 26 years of stepping over gear and, admittedly, qualifying for a 12-step program for hoarders, Sears was ...

Since Harmonix first announced it was bringing the Rock Band franchise to a new generation of consoles, there have been persistent questions about how the new games would support guitar and drum ...

Rather than letting your old musical instruments collect dust in the basement, a St. Paul-based non-profit is hoping you'll consider donating them instead. Instruments in the Cloud collects used ...

When Harold Smarkola was a young boy he had two dreams: to break the sound barrier and to learn to play the piano. He fulfilled the first in 1972 when, as a second lieutenant at Craig AFB in Selma, ...

BROCKTON - Students in the beloved Brockton High School marching band are using instruments that are 20 to 30 years old, said Rebecca Desmond, director of music at Brockton Public Schools. And, she ...

What is it: Play It Forward — Classical MPR's Musical Instrument Drive. People with old instruments can donate them to their local schools. Instruments being accepted: brass, woodwinds, string ...

Logan Tufte, a senior at Triton High School in Dodge Center, Minnesota, stands by a banner promoting his senior project to collect instruments for the school district's band programs. DODGE CENTER, ...

Salons, the kind 18th century French ladies hosted, are a thing of the past. Or are they? Who in this day and age invites people to sit in their living room, enjoy music and conversation over a glass ...