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.

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 ...

I recently had a conversation with a classical music-loving friend named Merl, who is English but lives in Scotland, about the pieces I have been writing for the Yakima Symphony Orchestra’s weekly ...

Eighteen indispensable men got ready last week for another winter’s work. They were the contrabassoonists of the eighteen big U.S. symphony orchestras. Without them, the U.S. symphonic season could ...

Introductory description, etymology and origins -- Precursors of the bassoon in Praetorius and Mersenne and surviving specimens -- The bassoon in other reference books from the late seventeenth ...

Leslie Ross 100 years after Stravinsky made the bassoon sound like it never had, in the opening of his Rite of Spring, Ross uses micro-amplifiers—15 of them, placed right on the sound holes of her ...

Orchestral opposites, the lilting oboe and sonorous bassoon have been linked inextricably for centuries by merely the slimmest of bonds: a double-layered sliver of bamboo that allows the instruments ...

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 ...

An old ad campaign for recording tape (kids, ask your parents) had the tagline “Is it live? Or is it Memorex?” obviously touting “live” as the gold standard of audio enjoyment. This Friday morning, in ...

When you’re friends with William Safford, you learn a lot about bassoons. The names of principal bassoonists in the major American orchestras over the last 75 years, the specifications and ...

MINDEN — Karen Sandene and the members of Bassoons Across Nebraska wanted to take their iconic instruments out of the concert hall and have a little fun. “Audiences won’t hear the more formal ...

Since its inception in 1997, Bonnie Wright’s Fresh Sound Music Series has brought some of the edgiest music mavericks in the world to San Diego. Under its auspices, audiences here have been able to ...