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.

Composer David Ludwig wrote "Pictures from the Floating World," a bassoon concerto for Philadelphia Orchestra musician Daniel Matsukawa. (Lindsay Lazarski/WHYY) The Philadelphia Orchestra’s principal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Catherine Van Handel is principal bassoonist of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. Catherine Van Handel is bringing sexy back to ...

The bassoon is a complex musical instrument. It’s a horn with six parts called bocal, boot, bell, bore, joint and reed. Bassoon history goes back earlier than the mid-16th century but it’s being ...

Judith LeClair performs with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in Hamburg, Germany. (Photo Provided) PARKERSBURG — A musical instrument once owned by a young Parkersburg musician whose life was ...

Music, education, family and Chinese heritage are passions of Principal Bassoon Fei Xie. Fei Xie has been the Minnesota Orchestra's principal bassoon since 2017. When he won the principal role with ...

ROCKY RIVER, Ohio -- It's not often that one encounters a bassoon quartet in its natural habitat. When the number of bassoons increases to nine, the occasion becomes as noteworthy as a grand alignment ...

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 ...

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 ...

Weston Jennings, artistic director for the New Texas Sinfonia, said the event will feature violins, cellos, flutes and ...

Catherine Van Handel is bringing sexy back to the bassoon. In the liner notes for her new CD, scheduled for release Jan. 31, the Milwaukee Symphony's principal bassoonist writes, "Each of the pieces I ...