Beyond technical mastery, Marlin believes playing the bassoon, or any instrument for that matter, is more than just executing notes and rhythms. It is about conveying a story, experience, or feeling.

Every musical instrument has a unique story, each with a distinct personality. Some, centuries old, have been passed down numerous times, from one generation of musicians to the next. Here are the ...

There are about 500 replacements needed. From $75 cello bows to $700 middle school-level violins, to $7,400 bassoons and tubas, items range greatly in cost and purpose. For the endowment ...

Instead of a monochrome Art of Fugue they offered an enticingly coloured one, with a harpsichord (played by the AAM’s director Laurence Cummings), four string players and four performers on plangent, ...

One recent afternoon, something new and peculiar showed up there. Behind the bassoons and in front of the trumpets was an odd trapezoidal object, reminiscent of a baccarat table, its surface ...

The fourth movement, Berlioz’s poet marching to the scaffold, was rapt and precise, the horns muted, the strings in gleaming unison, the bassoons nagging, anxious. And then the finale, when Pappano ...

The game didn’t start off so hot for Macken, a bassoon player in an orchestra, who answered two questions wrong and one right to put him in the red. But, then he found the Daily Double on the ...

From the very beginning, the ensemble engaged in a rich dialogue where high and low strings, oboes and bassoons acted as characteristic interlocutors. Being given the possibility to savour each timbre ...

Parsons held a bachelor of science degree in music from West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Montgomery, where he was trained on the piano and bassoon, and received an honorary ...

The orchestra on stage revealed miracles of scoring: chattering bassoons, serene string melodies, gruff brass chorales, all cleanly shaped and projected; co-ordination was sometimes edge-of-the ...

[an error occurred while processing this directive] [an error occurred while processing this directive] Monday 21 July 2008 7:00-10:00 (Radio 3) With Rob Cowan ...