contrabassoon

How To Use contrabassoon In A Sentence

• Fri 3/23, 12: 10 PM, contrabassoonist Susan Migro. 312-787-2729, ext. Chicago Reader
• The tutti strangeness is that of an orchestra without violas and cellos, but in which double basses, contrabassoon and piccolos are prominent.
• For example, can the contrabassoon part be played up an octave?
• Gotta love when the contrabassoonist gets the spotlight. Times Record News Stories
• No more toilet humor: NSO contrabassoonist trades in 'flatulent' instrument for sweeter contraforte Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
• Of other sizes, the commonest is the contrabassoon.
• Lewis Lipnick, the contrabassoonist of the NSO, plays Schulhoff's piece on the contrabassoon, the instrument he has been playing for more than 40 years: Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte
• No more toilet humor: NSO contrabassoonist trades in 'flatulent' instrument for sweeter contraforte Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post
• That usually refers to works that go to the extremes of the orchestra, beyond the meat-and-potatoes of strings and winds and brass: a stroke of harp, a shimmer of cymbal, the mellow birdcall of an oboe d'amore or the flatulence of a contrabassoon. Hans Graf conducts Jean-Yves Thibaudet, National Symphony in Ravel, Debussy
• At first hearing, the similarities between the contraforte and the contrabassoon are evident: both instruments hang out in the dark, lowest register of the double-reed universe. Audio: The contrabassoon vs. contraforte