Practice without your instrument first: puff your cheeks with air, inhale through your nose while squeezing air out of your ...

Leah Kohn, a facility artist, filled the Shigemi Matsumoto Recital Hall with her bassoon music on Feb. 22. Pianist Jason ...

It is made out of maple wood (or plastic) and has a double reed. The bassoon is a very versatile instrument. It can play very low notes and still get quite high. It can also play very quick ...

Listen to an example of the bassoon playing an extract from Mussorgsky's 'Pictures at an Exhibition'. Duration: 0:23 Listen to the bassoon. Listen to an example of the bassoon playing an extract ...

When I thought about the new Music Makers program at Gateway Science Museum, I was reminded of that line from “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory”: “We are the music makers and we are the dreamers ...

Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony have appointed two new musicians: Principal Bassoon Joshua Elmore and Section Percussionist Stan Muncy.