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.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. From Baroque concertos to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and chamber music of today, the bassoon is ...

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 ...

When Nicole Buetti first picked up the bassoon, it was supposed to be a not-so-secret weapon in woodwind-on-woodwind combat.

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 ...

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 ...

If you closed your eyes and tried to conjure up the perfect music for a warm summer evening at the Redlands Bowl, you might not come up with music for bassoon. But bassoonist Valentin Martchev was ...

The best Father’s Day for Rufus Olivier Jr. was in 2011, when he and his son, Rufus David Olivier, sat through 5½ hours of “Gotterdammerung” from “The Ring of the Nibelung” at the War Memorial Opera ...

A bassoon worth £40,000 which was stolen after a musician accidentally left it on a train has been found hidden behind a tree. Stuart Russell mistakenly got off the Lewes to Brighton service at 2pm ...