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.

To be an accomplished oboe or bassoon player it also helps to be a skilled carpenter. What? Sounds crazy, but it's true. Most young music students understand the road they must travel to become ...

There’s a lot that people don’t know about the bassoon: what it looks like (long and cylindrical), what it sounds like (rich, deep, slightly buzzing), or the name of a single person who plays it ...

It's not the instrument young people usually choose to become musicians. But for Donovan Tong it has opened up worlds of possibilities. I started playing the bassoon, the most wonderful instrument 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 ...

BRUNSWICK, Ohio -- The Medina Symphony and Symphonia of the Western Reserve will perform its spring concert at 2 p.m. Sunday (April 28) in the Brunswick Recreation Center auditorium. The concert will ...

On Sunday at the Terrace Theater, the Kennedy Center Chamber Players paid tribute to two neglected music makers. One was a composer, Max Bruch. The other was a woodwind, the bassoon. By the recital's ...