Escaped: The Bassoon Brothers
WELCOME to the new Bassoon Brothers website. We hope you find things here that are entertaining, educational and inspiring. If you need help with a bassoon related question or have an addition for our bassoon trivia, please contact us. Check back often.
WHAT'S NEW?
Our long awaited third bassoon quartet CD, Bassoon Brothers Escaped is now available. They're already saying it's our best yet, a magical mystery tour for bassoon quartet.
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Escaped features a variety of music including fellow bassoonists PDQ Bach's Lip My Reeds and Ode to a Toad by Ray Pizzi. (See Ray's video below.) There are solo leads on the sopranoon, tenoroon, bassoon and contrabassoon on tunes made famous by Gilbert & Sullivan. There's big band bassoon and surfer rock electric wah wah bassoon on Misirlou and a beautiful rendition of Brian Wilson's Surfer Girl. Walk the Line in tribute to Johnny Cash with some low down bassooning on Ring of Fire and Folsom Prison Blues and blue grass too. Of course we do some baroque and classical styling with music of Vivaldi, Bach and Grieg and a 'oon consort with the whole family on a Renaissance tune.
Join us for some fun with our talented accomplices. We've Escaped with more stolen goods. Our CDs also availble here: Forrests Music, Charles Double Reeds and Midwest Musical Imports
WHO ARE THE BASSOON BROTHERS?
The Bassoon Brothers is a quartet composed of members from the Oregon Symphony bassoon section. Despite its questionable beginning (rumor has it the group came into existence fully-formed late one Halloween night) and consistent inability to hold any respect whatsoever for established musical boundaries, the Bassoon Brothers have managed to release three quartet recordings Wanted, Captured, and Bassoon Brothers Escaped and are featured performing Daugherty's Hells Angels for bassoon quartet and orchestra on American Contrasts with the Oregon Symphony . They regularly commit their musical crimes in front of unsuspecting audiences throughout the Pacific Northwest. Their criminal behavior began way back in 1985.
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