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 ...

Daniel Smith has invested a lot of time and energy to bring the repertoire of the bassoon into ragtime, jazz and contemporary music. Smith has recorded such titles as Bassoon Bon Bons, Bravo Bassoon ...

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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 ...

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.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- An odd quirk of the bassoon is that it has a fairly limited dynamic range. It is extraordinarily difficult to play very softly; it’s not unheard of for the principal bassoonist to ask ...

Bassoon fills are short, expressive musical interjections played on the lower-register of the bassoon. They thrive on the instrument’s unique tonal palette—a blend of warm, resonant warmth and a ...

Ask the average person to describe a bassoon and you’re likely to get a blank stare or a wildly incorrect guess. Despite its warm, vibrant sound and critical role in orchestras, the bassoon remains ...

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 ...