Artist Alex Legeros is helping inspire a new generation to connect with the arts — and with classical music in particular. He ...

At its lowest, the bassoon is the orchestra’s fart-cushion. Haydn wasn’t above to employ it thus. At its best, it is this: An integral part to three chamber music pieces so beautiful, so impeccably ...

Poor Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year saw most of the projected live events cancelled, but good new recordings have continued to appear. One reason for liking this one, performances aside, is the ...

Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Sheldon series was the best thing to come out of the renovation of Powell Hall, which left the orchestra unhoused for two years. In this series, two SLSO musicians ...

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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 ...

Catherine Van Handel is bringing sexy back to the bassoon. In the liner notes for her new CD, scheduled for release Jan. 31, the Milwaukee Symphony's principal bassoonist writes, "Each of the pieces I ...

Nothing embodies the way classical music is evolving — in positive ways — better than the Boulder Bassoon Quartet. A professional bassoon quartet? Yes, they’re rare. But it’s just the sort of clever ...

Leslie Ross 100 years after Stravinsky made the bassoon sound like it never had, in the opening of his Rite of Spring, Ross uses micro-amplifiers—15 of them, placed right on the sound holes of her ...

There is no doubt about the brilliant uniqueness of pianist, conductor, musicologist and one-time Nadia Boulanger pupil Robert Levin, an influential Harvard Professor for more than two decades until ...

Bassoonist Andrew Brady performs a commissioned piece based on his grandmother’s words. Years before bassoonist Andrew Brady was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, his grandmother, an amateur poet, ...