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 ...

Baroque flutist Jeffrey Cohan will direct the Salish Sea Early Music Festival in Tacoma this month and in February. Reed Carlson Courtesy Old opera tunes, ballet favorites — two years before his death ...

In no other age did music and politics converge as successfully as they did under the reign of Louis XIV. Throughout his lengthy reign, 1661 to 1715, the Sun King systematically exploited cultural ...

For opera companies, French Baroque opera is the final frontier. The rescue of this largely unknown repertory from obscurity owes much to the period instruments movement and its proliferation on ...

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 -- ...

Jazz Suite is the second album by bassoonist Daniel Smith to be reviewed in these precincts (Smokin' Hot Bassoon Blues was the first). This one is far more agreeable, for at least two reasons: first, ...