Catherine Van Handel is bringing sexy back to the bassoon. In the liner notes for her new CD, scheduled for release Jan. 31, the Milwaukee Symphony's principal bassoonist writes, "Each of the pieces I ...
THE RESULTS can be life-changing when you expose kids to good music while they’re young. The life of classical bassoonist Rufus Olivier, who will solo in Mozart’s Bassoon Concerto at the Oakland East ...
Judith LeClair performs with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo Provided) PARKERSBURG — A musical instrument once owned by a young Parkersburg musician whose life was ...
Noon Concerts at Trinity Santa Barbara is marking 50 years of bassoon playing with two upcoming concerts, one in Santa Barbara and one in Beverly Hills. 50 Years of Bassoon Music for Bassoon & Strings ...
FRANK ZAPPA once wrote, “The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has the medieval aroma -- like the days when everything used to sound like that.... It’s a great noise -- nothing else makes ...
Hark! What is that frightful racket? Is one of David Archer’s Herefords in the throes of a difficult calving? Or could it be the desperate warning bellow of a lonely automated foghorn? Actually, it is ...
It's not the instrument young people usually choose to become musicians. But for Donovan Tong it has opened up worlds of possibilities. I started playing the bassoon, the most wonderful instrument I ...
The local electric bassoon ensemble — perhaps the world's only electric bassoon ensemble — began as a joke. Matt Gutwein mused about his teenage hobby of playing bassoon, the double-reed woodwind ...
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