WASHINGTON: A few years ago, when the US National Symphony Orchestra was rehearsing at the Kennedy Centre for a performance of Stravinsky's Petrushka, a funny thing happened to the orchestra's ...

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A few years ago, when the National Symphony Orchestra was rehearsing at the Kennedy Center for a performance of Stravinsky's "Petrushka," a funny thing happened to the orchestra's contrabassoonist, ...

Introductory description, etymology and origins -- Precursors of the bassoon in Praetorius and Mersenne and surviving specimens -- The bassoon in other reference books from the late seventeenth ...

It might be the oldest new instrument to arrive in Australia this year. It's definitely the longest. The contrabassoon Sydney's Pinchgut Opera took delivery of on Friday is 2.7 metres long, and ...

An instrument that went missing almost six years ago from Kleinhans Music Hall is home again, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra announced Friday.

Eighteen indispensable men got ready last week for another winter’s work. They were the contrabassoonists of the eighteen big U.S. symphony orchestras. Without them, the U.S. symphonic season could ...

Martha E. Malkiewicz had come to terms with the fact that her contrabassoon that disappeared from Kleinhans Music Hall nearly six years ago was gone for good.

"Though there are many bassoonists that play contrabassoon only grudgingly, Richard Bobo relishes the contrabassoon and considers himself equally a contrabassoonist and bassoonist." That's how Jason ...