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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With 19 musicians and nine original compositions, the Big Time Jazz Orchestra isn't holding much back on its second jazz album. "Fanfare from Some Flounder?" gets its name from a tune written by ...

KEARNEY — James Compton hated playing the clarinet. His seventh grade band teacher took some drastic action for the young musician in the last chair in the clarinet section. “I was terrible at the ...

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 ...