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 ...

The local electric bassoon ensemble — perhaps the world's only electric bassoon ensemble — began as a joke. Matt Gutwein mused about his teenage hobby of playing bassoon, the double-reed woodwind ...

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.

KENAI — In some respects, Sterling Strickler followed in his father’s footsteps; in other ways, he found his own path. Like his father, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Unlike his father, he carries a ...

That’s what Rice University student Xayvion Davidson of LaVergne, Tenn., was up against earlier this month during the finals of the Mitchell-Hogg Young Artist Competition. Now one of the Immanuel and ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - The Kansas State University Technology Development Institute helped an associate professor launch a new bassoon product. Kansas State University officials said the new product ...

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 ...