The bassoon is a complex musical instrument. It’s a horn with six parts called bocal, boot, bell, bore, joint and reed. Bassoon history goes back earlier than the mid-16th century but it’s being ...

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 ...

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio -- It's not often that one encounters a bassoon quartet in its natural habitat. When the number of bassoons increases to nine, the occasion becomes as noteworthy as a grand alignment ...

The best Father’s Day for Rufus Olivier Jr. was in 2011, when he and his son, Rufus David Olivier, sat through 5½ hours of “Gotterdammerung” from “The Ring of the Nibelung” at the War Memorial Opera ...

A bassoon worth £40,000 which was stolen after a musician accidentally left it on a train has been found hidden behind a tree. Stuart Russell mistakenly got off the Lewes to Brighton service at 2pm ...

If you closed your eyes and tried to conjure up the perfect music for a warm summer evening at the Redlands Bowl, you might not come up with music for bassoon. But bassoonist Valentin Martchev was ...

The precious instrument was stolen when Francesca’s north London home was ‘ransacked’ at the end of November. A former Royal Academy of Music lecturer is begging for the return of her £30,000 bassoon, ...