Meet the bassoon — a double-reed woodwind instrument with rich tones and intricate fingering. Professor Richard Church introduces young learners to the bassoon and the rest of the woodwind family.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. From Baroque concertos to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and chamber music of today, the bassoon is ...

The bassoon has been called “ the clown of the orchestra” — but the best clowns are performers capable of doing so much more than making people laugh. That is something that Richard Ramey and Susie ...

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 ...

A weekend celebration of the bassoon on the Indiana University campus was capped Saturday evening with an Auer Hall Bassoon Day 2018 program featuring a dozen bassoons (I counted them and very much ...

" 'Uh oh — things are going comically awry!' That's the way I think it is most often used in television and movies," says Eileen Reynolds, who has played the bassoon since elementary school. "When I ...

This country has produced some very fine novelists, legions of the world's best figure skaters, four Nobel prize-winning physicists and, by all accounts, the best bassoon maker in the world. The ...