Check out this famous work, Central Park in the Dark by Charles Ives. Kind of eerie and creepy, perfect for Halloween!

White House Piano   The custom Steinway piano at Christmas, 2002 Maestro-in-Chief Pianos have been popular musical instruments almost since their invention over two centuries ago, and quickly found their way into the White House. And several presidents have been adept piano players. President Truman and his daughter Margaret played regularly and preferred traditional black Baldwin grand pianos. Margaret’s piano leg poking through the floor of her second-floor sitting room […]

Here is a collection of Robert Schumann’s most famous compositions!  

Sir Edward Elgar’s famous piece, Pomp and Circumstance!

As a teenager seeking his first place at a school for young pianists, Nicholas McCarthy was refused an audition and told he would never succeed.   Having one hand, the head teacher told him, would always hold him back and it was better not to waste his and other people’s time. While some might have given up, Mr McCarthy went on to become the first one-handed pianist known to have […]