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.

The bassoon has been called “ the clown of the orchestra” — but the best clowns are performers capable of doing so much more than making people laugh. That is something that Richard Ramey and Susie ...

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 ...

Much like a Stradivarius is to the violin world, a Heckel is considered one of the gold standards in bassoons. So when Laine Bryce decided to sell her Heckel upon retirement after 26 years of playing ...

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 ...