This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies, in for Terry Gross. Today we're rebroadcasting Terry's interview with pianist Jeremy Denk. When it aired originally in March, it was preempted on many stations by ...

I grew up in very musical household. From the kitchen, my mother (a voice teacher) would sing. From the music room, my sister would practice classical violin–Bach or Tchaikovsky or Vivaldi. From the ...

Robin McCabe, professor of piano at the University of Washington, recalls little acts of subterfuge by piano students during her days in postgraduate studies at the Juilliard School. “We had great ...