Multi-instrumentalist Amy Denio, right (Kultur Shock, Tiptons Sax Quartet), deploys her unusual vocal talents in “explorations of voice and environment” involving “simple electronics” at Good Shepherd ...

Hailed as a shapeshifting collaborative baroque ensemble with a visceral and playful approach to classical music, Ruckus has released its sophomore album The Edinburgh Rollick, an ebullient follow-up ...

When you go to the symphony, chances are your eyes are mostly on the conductor and the violins. The bassoon? Not so much. The instrument has a dry, woody timbre with a slightly clogged-up resonance, ...

James Oliver Bolyard, 52, a professional musicologist and leading exponent of the baroque bassoon, died of liver cancer June 4 at Virginia Hospital Center-Arlington. He was a resident of Arlington ...

Last Thursday was a very big deal for Hector Serna. That evening, the members of L’Estro Barocco, the baroque ensemble Serna has long dreamed of founding, got together for the first time all in one ...

That's the name of a new album of baroque chamber music from the Irish bassoonist Peter Whelan and Ensemble Marsyas. There is no exclamation mark, no hint of irony. The cover art shows an elegant 18th ...

Introduction -- Early names; precursors; the bassoon idea; the founding myth --The dulcian family -- The bassoon idea: early relatives -- The baroque bassoon -- The classical bassoon, c.1760-1830 -- ...