Have you ever experienced a bassoon quartet? The sound is like nothing else - in a good way. You have the opportunity to hear the Maderas Bassoon Quartet at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Music Center at St.

A teen guitarist from Colorado plays a beautiful work by Bach, a cellist plays an emotional Elegy by John Williams, and a pianist performs a piece that draws from the worlds of classical and jazz.

It reverberated across continents and centuries. It harnessed lesser-played instruments, most prominently a Baroque bassoon. It even breathed stirring sound into a long-slumbering composition. “From ...

The 300th anniversary of Bach`s birth is a cultural landmark, a moment in the passage of time in which musicians, philosophers and historians pause to weigh the impact of the man and his music. And ...