Jodi DiPiazza was lucky enough to get into one of the few schools available to help children with autism to reach their potential. Loud temper tantrums often flared up during those pre-kindergarten years, but during many hours of therapy, Jodi found a talent that truly grounded her -- music.
You don't have to have your eyesight to make beautiful works of art... you just need a camera, a monitor, and a little motivation.
81 independent bookstores across the United States got an early holiday gift from bestselling author James Patterson, who earlier this year began his campaign to give one million dollars to some 170 booksellers.
Vanderbilt University student Michael Pollack got the chance to ask a question at a Billy Joel appearance at his college. He told the 'Piano Man' that he had performed New York State of Mind with Joel's saxophonist in the past and wondered if he could go onstage and play it with him. Surprisingly, Joel said, Sure.
An Iowa girl, whose stubborn leukemia is blasted every week with chemotherapy, jumped at the chance to receive a song made especially for her. It's called Songs of Love.
Sometimes change happens in the most unlikely ways, fostered by the most unlikely people. In the last few years, while Israel's relationship with the Arab and Muslim world has drastically deteriorated, an Israeli heavy metal band has been uniting thousands of Jews and Muslims across the Middle East, touting the power of music to turn purported enemies into friends.
He never would have auditioned if it wasn't for his girlfriend, but Travis Pratt was glad he did after he received a standing ovation. No one expected him to sing like he did—but in the end, the one who was most shocked was his girlfriend when Travis proposed marriage right on the stage of America's Got Talent
Former East London fish seller Muhammad Shahid Nazir shot to fame this month after a video of his fish song went viral attracting more than 6.3 million views: Come on ladies/Come on ladies/One pound fish. He quit market trading after the video became so popular he was offered a recording deal, according to the BBC in early December.
A Japanese music foundation has sold a renowned Stradivarius violin for $16 million at auction to raise money for tsunami disaster relief. The nonprofit Nippon Foundation owned the 1721 violin, which was rarely played, and decided it could be put to better use: The needs of our fellow Japanese people after the March 11 tragedy have proven that we all need to help, in any way we can.
The CMA Foundation has donated another $1.4 million to benefit music education programs for Nashville's public schoola through its Keep the Music Playing campaign, bringing the total to more than $6.1 million.
Seven-time Grammy Award-winning singer and musician John Mayer launches his first U.S. tour in two years on April 9, with 18 concerts that will raise money to benefit US veterans.
In honor of his 450th birthday this month, we present, in order of increasing nastiness, William Shakespeare's best villains, the top 20 bad boys (and girls).
After serving a 14-year sentence for murder, no one would have expected Sarah Jane Coffman to go anywhere near the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center once she was released. But every Saturday she makes the 10-mile drive with a viola in tow for orchestra practice at the prison just north of Anchorage. Coffman is a founding member of the women's string orchestra at the prison, playing since 2003.
Female inmates at Rikers Island are taking classes through the Stella Adler School of Acting outreach program, writing and performing their own pieces.
Japan is known for its high-speed bullet trains and old-fashioned locomotives. But, nothing compares to the attention this life-sized Thomas the Tank Engine has received since last summer.
Chad Bernstein is a celebrity trombone player, but his passion is helping at-risk kids overcome the pull of Miami's rough streets through music. On that sweet note he was named a CNN Hero.
In a new documentary, I Am Big Bird, we meet Caroll Spinney, on Sesame Street for 40 years, the man who has no intention of giving up his yellow feathers.
In the final stages of cancer, an Arkansas grandmother was unable to hear her grandson in his marching band, playing the trumpet that she had bought him. Instead, the band came to her -- all 120 members with drums and horns and cymbals -- playing a concert beneath her window and granting her last wish.
The amount of pain-staking and personal details involved in this almost forgotten art is jaw-dropping.
These elderly married couples share some great stories about how they found just the right fish in the sea.
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