Toy pianos are fun to plink around on for a minute, but their small keyboards and even smaller sound make them musically uninteresting pretty quickly. [Måns Jonasson] found a way to jazz up a ...

Paul Smith is the co-artistic director of the group Blush Opera, which sometimes produces concerts and events featuring toy pianos. A child’s toy may seem like an unlikely candidate for the classical ...

It started as a call for help. On an otherwise ordinary day in 1999, University of California San Diego’s Geisel Library lost its help-desk service bell. Fortunately, library exhibits and events ...

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 ...

Through her brother she met one of his Harvard University classmates, who became a medical examiner in the Boston area. She endowed Harvard to create a legal medicine department, one division of which ...