Sitting one behind the other at the Wichita Symphony Orchestra, two woodwinds joined tempos and exchanged vows. Andrea Banke, the company’s principal oboist, recently married Scott Charles Oakes, the ...
This season, Bravo! has two interns of double-reed heritage, an Oberlin-trained bassoonist and myself, an oboist from Juilliard. Naturally, with two such woodwind musicians, a short vent on the nature ...
Abe Weiss began playing the bassoon in sixth grade and within several years began making his own bassoon reeds. He continued to make them from scratch during the 41 years he was the principal ...