"Though there are many bassoonists that play contrabassoon only grudgingly, Richard Bobo relishes the contrabassoon and considers himself equally a contrabassoonist and bassoonist." That's how Jason ...

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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taryn Sahli waited outside her performance room with her mother and her instrument, as students who saw her with the contrabassoon slowed and pointed. The room filled to standing-room only in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – An expensive and rare musical instrument has been stolen from Kleinhans Music Hall. The owner is in the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. She is still able to play thanks to an ...

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