Of many thousands, the sun shone ordinarily, And in the sky, small clots of white exhaled and scudded by. But inside the organ-pipework walls The first and second violins, violas, cellos, Double ...

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Matthias Pintscher’s latest visit to Disney Hall was as much a concert as it was a veritable buffet of his talents, served hot and fresh. All that was missing was the clanging of a dinner bell to call ...

But classical music popularity doesn’t mean that young people are filling orchestra halls, said Alex Legeros, the director of Franconia Sculpture Park in Shafer, Minn., who has played the bassoon and ...

When Nicole Buetti first picked up the bassoon, it was supposed to be a not-so-secret weapon in woodwind-on-woodwind combat. She was 11 years old and stuck playing the flute alongside her school ...

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 ...

Jacopo Spirei’s double-bill of Ravel’s L’heure espagnole and William Walton’s The Bear is huge fun, with baritone Daniel Barrett particularly impressive From the perfectly enunciated “Merde!” with ...

An instrument that went missing almost six years ago from Kleinhans Music Hall is home again, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra announced Friday. A contrabassoon – a woodwind instrument with a sound ...

Low B flat, the lowest tone in music that is not just a grunt, is sounded in orchestras by the contrabassoon or the contrabass tuba. Beethoven used the big woodwind in his Ninth Symphony. Haydn in his ...