Composer Jeff Scott. Courtesy of Jeff Scott's Instagram. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Sheldon series was the best thing to come out of the renovation of Powell Hall, which left the ...

This year’s Fifth Annual Bassoon Ensemble Concert, “Rock-n-Roll Retrospective,” rocked the Nightingale Concert Hall Tuesday evening, Feb. 17 The University of Nevada, Reno musicians played to their ...

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.

On BeBop Bassoon, Daniel Smith introduces the jazz world to his unique sound on the first ever compact disc recording of straight ahead bop classics on the deep voiced horn. The most recorded bassoon ...

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 ...

On BeBop Bassoon, Daniel Smith introduces the jazz world to his unique sound on the first ever compact disc recording of straight ahead bop classics on the deep voiced horn. The most recorded bassoon ...

Daniel Smith is the Elvis Presley of the bassoon. Like the King himself, who took a then-obscure style and turned it into the world’s most popular forms of music, Smith is single-handedly bringing the ...

" '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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Richard Bobo wants to remind people what a bassoon sounds like, he refers to marching broomsticks. You know, the ones from the most iconic scene of Disney's ...

" '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 ...