Composer Jeff Scott. Courtesy of Jeff Scott's Instagram. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Sheldon series was the best thing to come out of the renovation of Powell Hall, which left the ...

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.

This year’s Fifth Annual Bassoon Ensemble Concert, “Rock-n-Roll Retrospective,” rocked the Nightingale Concert Hall Tuesday evening, Feb. 17 The University of Nevada, Reno musicians played to their ...

On BeBop Bassoon, Daniel Smith introduces the jazz world to his unique sound on the first ever compact disc recording of straight ahead bop classics on the deep voiced horn. The most recorded bassoon ...

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 ...

Daniel Smith is the Elvis Presley of the bassoon. Like the King himself, who took a then-obscure style and turned it into the world’s most popular forms of music, Smith is single-handedly bringing the ...

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 bassoon sounds more than a little like Rollins' saxophone in places and at times even resembles the tenor titan's distinctive speaking voice a bit. Smith swings the song mightily, playing with a ...

A slow‑to‑midtempo motif played on a classic bassoon offers an uncanny blend of woodwind warmth and rhythmic motion. When the notes are punctuated by a subtle tape‑like delay, the resonant low ...