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Bassoon

Bassoon

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In this episode, I talk to Jolene Masone, Peter Van Zandt Lane, and Brittany Harrington-Smith about the bassoon -- a woodwind instrument they called woody, goofy, lyrical. I asked about their relationship with the instrument, what it "does well," and what pieces show it off well.

Guests: Jolene Masone, Peter Van Zandt Lane, Brittany Harrington-Smith

Audio clips:

  • blocks by Adam Scott Neal, performed by Beo String Quartet (Theme)
  • University of Iowa Electronic Music Studios (bassoon notes)
  • International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) / Petrucci Music Library (clips of Paul Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring)
  • Christopher Millard and CBC Vancouver Orchestra (Otmar Nussio: Variations su un' Arietta di Pergolesi (1953) )
  • Olivia Palmer-Baker (Pierluigi Bilone: Blaues Fragment (2010))
  • Peter Van Zandt Lane (Hydromancer, Aeromancer, Pyromancer)
  • Breaking Winds Quartet (“Rapper’s Delight” and Maurice Ravel’s Bolero)


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