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.

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 ...

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I recently had a conversation with a classical music-loving friend named Merl, who is English but lives in Scotland, about the pieces I have been writing for the Yakima Symphony Orchestra’s weekly ...

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 ...

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 ...

PENOBSCOT, Maine — When Leslie Ross and her partner, writer Zeke Finkelstein, first got a look at the interior of a former vegetable and blueberry cannery on Southern Bay Road, something struck a ...