An African American composer and pianist known as one of the greatest musicians of the 19th century, Thomas Wiggins (1849-1908) was blind from birth and likely autistic. Although born into slavery, ...

We know Braille as a system of writing for the blind, but it was created for music, too. Louis Braille was a musician as well as a scholar, and his system made it possible to read and write music by ...

Once upon a time, in New York City, a blind composer named Moondog held court. Everyone from Charlie Parker to Frank Zappa to Phillip Glass knew about Moondog. A street musician by trade, he often ...

A composer who contracted a rare neurological virus that left him blind has recorded new work about his time in an intensive care unit. Michael Stimpson, who lives in the Chalke Valley, near Salisbury ...

He was about to graduate from high school and he was enamored with the music of Joaquin Rodrigo, an underappreciated Spanish composer whose works, grounded in the classical style yet full of ...

You might notice tactile braille signs on lifts, trains and other public places. For people who are blind or have low vision, including myself, these tactile signs are essential to finding information ...