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 ...

Oboes and bassoons are quite rare in jazz performance these days, but if you know where to look, they’ll turn up. Paul Whiteman’s orchestra used both oboes and bassoons. Yusef Lateef, in addition to ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Three new musicians have joined the Cleveland Orchestra, replacing players who've recently retired or left for other ensembles. The first to begin will be bassoonist Gareth Thomas.

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 ...

It is widely understood that lions, pandas and polar bears are all in serious jeopardy … The fact that bassoons now share this endangered status may come as more of a surprise, but this summer the ...