You may or may not be able to pick out a bassoon from looking at an orchestra on stage, but you might recognize the SOUND of the instrument as the gruff grandfather in Peter and the Wolf. Bassoon is a double-reed member of the woodwind family. Antonio Vivaldi composed quite a few concertos featuring bassoon, and you can audition a selection from a brand new recording of them on Sunday Baroque this week.
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April is National Humor Month … and Sunday Baroque will explore music and musicians with a sense of humor, such as Georg Philip Telemann’s Burlesque Overture, which is a musical caricature of the 16th century Commedia dell’arte characters: Scaramouches, Harlequin, Columbine, and Pierrot.
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Halloween is just around the corner. We have no tricks up our sleeves — only musical treats this weekend, including demons in the underworld, and a flute concerto that goes BUMP in the night! Those are some of the Halloween highlights you’ll hear on Sunday Baroque this weekend.
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