Save the Bassoon

**edashtav** · 03-08-15, 14:33

Jane Shilling has her own eccentric take on this matter in the Daily Telegragh:

Why the difficult, eccentric bassoon is well worth saving

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/11779415/Why-the-difficult-eccentric-basoon-is-well-worth-saving.html

Despite being the butt of many musicians' jokes, the bassoon is the natural instrument of sturdy individualists

**MrGongGong** · 03-08-15, 14:39

Here's one

BBC Radio 1 - Pete Tong, Radio 1's Ibiza Prom

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06391d7

Pete goes to Ibiza via the BBC Proms, live from London's Royal Albert Hall.

(and a contrabass flute n'all)

**Serial_Apologist** · 03-08-15, 15:43

Lindsay Cooper:

Lindsay Cooper in 'Democratie' from Mike Westbrook's 'The Cortege'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp9KZvwOl9M

In memory of Lindsay Cooper 1951 - 2013.We remember Lindsay Cooper who died on September 18th withfilm of her in The Cortege with the Mike Westbrook Orchestr...

**Stanfordian** · 03-08-15, 15:48

Originally posted by subcontrabass View Post

See http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...red-instrument

Hiya subcontrabass,

As a bassoonist Sir Mark Elder is the natural choice to run any campaign.

**MrGongGong** · 03-08-15, 16:02

Anna Meredith: axeman for electric bassoon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAxnBk8S6AU

In this work, the bassoon is amplified and routed through a guitar distortion pedal, offering every bassoonist the chance to sound like a rock star. The dist...

(Sadly not John from the sniffers

)

Hell's Angels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0g1wQ_8USg

Michael Daugherty's "Hell's Angels" for Bassoon Quartet and Orchestra.Redwood Symphony Orchestra, November 17th, 2012Soloists: Douglas McCracken, Jared Prolo...

and so on

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