When you’re friends with William Safford, you learn a lot about bassoons. The names of principal bassoonists in the major American orchestras over the last 75 years, the specifications and ...

Steven Braunstein probably doesn't even need to mention that as a high school student in Queens he played bass in a rock band. It's obvious from his manner -- he has that quiet, undemonstrative ...

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 ...

Bassoonist Megan Schlie, 17, performs Carl Maria von Weber's Bassoon Concerto in F Major, 1st mvt. Megan has been playing bassoon since the sixth grade, when her band teacher asked for a volunteer to ...