Martha Malkiewicz never got her stolen contrabassoon back. But this weekend, in a pair of classics concerts, the musician with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra started over with the next best thing: ...

An instrument that went missing almost six years ago from Kleinhans Music Hall is home again, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra announced Friday. A contrabassoon – a woodwind instrument with a sound ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In 1979 Lewis Lipnick, the contrabassoonist of the National Symphony Orchestra, played the world premiere of the first concerto ever written for this gigantic and growl-y instrument, which can descend ...

Great Scott! Christopher Lloyd is obsessed with the bassoon! Lloyd, the legendary actor who played Doc Brown in the Back to the Future film franchise, is an ornery contrabassoon teacher in this ...

LOS ANGELES — A reward was offered Friday for information leading to the safe return of a $30,000 contrabassoon that was stolen from a downtown Los Angeles school. The rare horn, which is a bigger and ...