The Turkish March by Julius Weissenborn.
I guess I’m in a Bill Douglas mood right now …
Here’s the info given:
Bill Douglas and the Boulder Bassoon Band plays Bill’s composition ‘Banana’, framed by Sonny Rollin’s ‘St. Thomas’, in a 1985 concert. Near the end, the band performs Bill’s ‘Vocal Rhythm Etude #5′ (formerly known as ‘Rock Etude #17′). The other members of the band are John Steinmetz, Dan Young, Bruce Orr, Jim Cochrane, Steve Braunstein, and Geoff Johns (percussion).
The Breaking Winds do it again!
Nope. Pigs.
I LOVE this! I played Beauty and the Beast way back in June of 2000 when it was on tour and in San Francisco. Even before that I found that the music did get to me. I hear Beauty and the Beast and I get sort of emotional. I’m sure that’s silly, but there you go! I think these Disney musicals are just fun. And every girl dreams of being a princess, right?
Ya gotta love the Breaking Winds!
Just a little gift for you low reed folk. Different approaches to the Mozart Bassoon Concerto, second movement. DK, this one’s for you! 8-)
This is a fun version!
But … um … who says bassoons have the only right to play it, eh?
Any of my bassoon playing pals want to share their favorite video of the original instrumentation?
Of course it’s the bassoons having all the fun again. Typical.
Harlequin-the Quartet
Cantina Band from “Star Wars”
John Williams/Julia Lockhart
Jesse Read, Julia Lockhart, Gwen Seaton, Ingrid Chang-Bassoons
… this time from University of Colorado at Boulder.
So what is it about bassoons and Lady Gaga? Hmm?
Astor Piazzolla-Tango Suite
arr. Fraser Jackson
Harlequin Quartet
Too darn wonderful! Sorry I can’t see how to put the translation there … when I watched it on Facebook there was a place to click and then the English translation was below. But you get the idea just from watching, I’m sure!
Fourteen, in fact. Wow!
Canticle of Earth by Dan Kellogg
World Premiere, 22 February 2011. University of Colorado, College of Music Bassoon Studio, Yoshi Ishikawa Director. Conducted by Allan McMurray. Players from L-R: Kent Hurd, Yahaira Nieves, Michael Christoph, Amanda Hoffer, Shih-han Chiu, Kaori Uno, Patty Fagan, Michelle Jones, Matt Cullen, Kristen Gogan, Brian Jack, Cody Dean, YoonJoo Hwang, Ben Cefkin
I’d post this photo on the blog, but I’m not sure it’s legal. So you’ll just have to click on that link! I LOVE this!
Brought to my attention by Brian Sacawa via Twitter (he’s @briansacawa there). Yes. There ARE a lot of good things about Twitter! :-)
Nancy Ambrose King, oboe
Stephane Levesque, bassoon
2006, Austin, TX
Um. Okay … I’m humbled. Again. And again.
Is the bassoon bigger than the double bassoon?
Well how silly is that? If you stack one bassoon on top of another, making it a double, it will obviously be taller! I think taller qualifies as bigger … right? ;-)
