WASHINGTON: A few years ago, when the US National Symphony Orchestra was rehearsing at the Kennedy Centre for a performance of Stravinsky's Petrushka, a funny thing happened to the orchestra's ...

"Though there are many bassoonists that play contrabassoon only grudgingly, Richard Bobo relishes the contrabassoon and considers himself equally a contrabassoonist and bassoonist." Subscribe to ...

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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 ...

In the above video, Chatterton demos the classical contrabassoon, which has a slightly softer and mellower sound than its modern cousin. It’s much longer, too, since instrument makers of the 18th ...

Martha Malkiewicz never got her stolen contrabassoon back. But this weekend, in a pair of classics concerts, the musician with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra started over with the next best thing: ...

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 ...