If there is a Sisyphean aspect to playing the bassoon, there is also an inherent perk. Right off the bat, Steinmetz says, he always got to play: “I didn’t have to go into a room full of 50 ...

I can't go 150 miles per hour." The bassoon has also broken into the world of pop. Last year, a quartet of classically trained bassoonists, who call themselves The Breaking Winds, donned wigs and ...

because you’re probably going to go to an Ivy League college or something with all that debate experience. Johnsen: Did you ever make your own reeds for your bassoon? Wilson: I tried to make my ...

Orchestral opposites, the lilting oboe and sonorous bassoon have been linked inextricably for centuries by merely the slimmest of bonds: a double-layered sliver of bamboo that allows the ...