Later, his parents bought him a bassoon which was “taller than I was”. The switch to conducting happened at Cambridge, where he sang, played the bassoon and piano and acted in plays.From 1979 ...

GREENVILLE — Greenville Technical College, the state's second largest public community college, has chosen a new leader, and it's another Miller. Larry Miller will take over as the tech school ...

One of them is Michael Hersch, the contemporary American. So, who sang the motets? Nobody—unless you count bassoons: four of them. These motets were arranged for bassoon quartet by William Short, who ...

One of the first modern women composers to reach international acclaim, Gubaidulina wrote bold music, inspired by Eastern and Western... Sofia Gubaidulina, the composer who fused sound and ...

One allusion jumped out at me. In the prelude to the fourth act, set in the Sultan’s prison, cellos and bassoons play an upward line that resembles the lyrical second theme of Beethoven’s ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. He wrote nine symphonies. A symphony is a long piece for orchestra usually split into four sections known as movements. His Symphony No. 5 ...

You won’t typically hear a trio of bassoon players (in fact, outside of a classical music concert, it’s rare to hear a bassoon player at all) but Katherine Young, Dana Jessen, and Ben Roidl-Ward, who ...

"And then I think that the sense of humor is a very fine line. I mean if you hear double bass and contra-bassoon, it normally associates with humor. But she manages to use those instruments both with ...

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