Bassoon Blog

This past weekend the  Columbus Symphony presented the Mozart Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro , K. 492, the Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 an...

Bassoonists may recognize the above excerpt.  This notorious bassoon part is from William Schuman's New England Tryptich , movement III-...

This past weekend the Columbus Symphony performed the Beethoven Overture to Leonore No. 2, the Jonathan Leshnoff Double Concerto for Violin ...

The Firebird ballet is based on Russian folk tales involving a magical glowing bird (the firebird), which is both a blessing and a curse ...

The French basson remains a fascination of mine.  A reader of this blog, Brice Mallier who is a French bassoon enthusiast sent me a link to ...

This past weekend the Columbus Symphony performed Beethoven Prometheus Overture, Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major and Bruckner Sympho...

A colleague from the Columbus Symphony emailed me this poem.  At a time when orchestras throughout the country are experiencing great financ...