The classical audience should be able to focus on the music, not what the bassoonist is wearing on his feet or why the cellist is wearing a pink polo shirt with orange pants. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)
After a little research and rallying of corporate colleagues for funding, Meyers hooked up with Dantes Rameau, an award-winning Canadian bassoonist and alum of The Yale School of Music and the New England Conservatory, to name a few who studied El Sistema in Venezuela as a member of the Abreu Fellows Program. ❋ Kristi York Wooten (2011)
The principal bassoonist at the New York Philharmonic got some good news recently: The bassoon part in Maurice Ravel's "Mother Goose" ballet ("Ma Mère l'Oye"), which will be performed on the orchestra's program for three consecutive evenings beginning Wednesday (and reprised Jan. 4), just grew by four full measures. ❋ Anne S. Lewis (2011)
I also enjoyed Jesse Briton's performance in My Fortnum and Mason Hell, a faux-naive narrative about a bassoonist arrested for protesting against Tory cuts. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Four pages later she's writing about Doug Quint, a Julliard-trained bassoonist who drives around Manhattan in something called the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck. ❋ Paul Lukas (2011)
Kleiber, often lonely, was prone to form unlikely friendships—one was with a female bassoonist in a Luxembourg orchestra whom he spotted on television. ❋ Norman Lebrecht (2011)
One reason it's cool, of course, is that a food truck run by a Julliard-trained bassoonist or an ad agency creative director, an art teacher or a real estate lawyer, to name a few of the book's other mobile vendors feels like a clever juxtaposition, a kind of cultural irony on wheels. ❋ Paul Lukas (2011)
Oboist Henry Ward, clarinetist Raymond Santos, bassoonist Rose Vrbsky, horn player Lauren Moore, and pianist Nolan Pearson bounced bright tone around in an engaging and — unusual for Carter performances in the past — solidly matter-of-fact manner. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)
There were two wonderful jazz pianists, a flutist whose solo performance took me back to when he was dazzling us fifty years before, a bassoonist who had been the principal chair at the New York Philharmonic, several vocalists, operatic and pop, and readings from among our distinguished writers and poets. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The bassoonist Vernon Elliott came in to furnish the music. ❋ Heather McDougal (2008)
Choristers and brass players were sometimes deployed in the balconies, and Nekrotzar had one grand entrance down the aisle, trailed by a bassoonist, violinist, clarinetist and piccolo player. ❋ Unknown (2010)
• Haydn: Symphony No. 93, just the right offbeat, late Haydn symphony to send the audience home laughing along with the musicians, features the most famous of all bassoon jokes, perhaps to show off Phil's new first bassoonist ❋ Laurence Vittes (2010)
In one movement we hear recordings of the musicians 'voices as they played their virtuosic solos: here was the French horn player who wished he was a clarinettist; the contra-bassoonist who adores playing "low notes all day long"; the cellist who says of the audience, "the more they listen, the better we play". ❋ Unknown (2010)
Doug, a classically trained bassoonist, wanted to find a summer gig in the city so he didn't have to travel all over to music festivals. ❋ Unknown (2010)
