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 ...

Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra Jonathan Cohen, Conductor Alfredo Bernardini, Oboe Arcangelo Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra Jonathan Cohen, Conductor Peter Whelan ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Three new musicians have joined the Cleveland Orchestra, replacing players who've recently retired or left for other ensembles. The first to begin will be bassoonist Gareth Thomas.

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 ...

Even Judith LeClair, principal bassoonist in the New York Philharmonic, says there are issues with her instrument. "A lot of people call it an oboe," she once told CNN. "It's not as recognized as a ...

Anton Reicha didn’t invent the wind quintet, but he helped make it a thing. He wrote 24 of them, helping establish the ...

It is widely understood that lions, pandas and polar bears are all in serious jeopardy … The fact that bassoons now share this endangered status may come as more of a surprise, but this summer the ...

Three musicians from the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West will bring the sounds of flute, oboe and bassoon to Williams ...

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 ...