How to Use bassoon in a Sentence

bassoon

noun

• The sender had bought a bassoon at a swap meet in San Bernardino.
  — Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2021
• Her death from cancer made the bassoon all the dearer to him.
  — Charles McNulty Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 27 Feb. 2021
• Who would've thought a show with a bassoon cleaner at the center of its plot would've manage to capture so many hearts?
  — Neha Prakash, Marie Claire, 22 Oct. 2021
• On his right sat the Hoffman twins, Lorraine on alto clarinet and Florraine on the bassoon.
  — Star Tribune, 3 July 2021
• Upper wind trills suggested bird calls and drones in the bassoon and horn evoked bagpipes in rustic dances.
  — Dallas News, 8 Feb. 2022
• The overture is cast in much the same populist manner, moving to a triumphant close via a jaunty bassoon melody that might as well be a Swedish folk song.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2017
• His father, William, was a conductor and clarinetist; his mother, Sylvia, played the bassoon.
  — New York Times, 30 Nov. 2021
• Among many solos, none was more important than Valentin Martchev’s bassoon work.
  — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2022
• Then a solo bassoon silences the warmth: A funeral dirge is passing through.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2023
• What’s unfair is the blame being heaped on 10-year-old Tom (voice of Steve Dildarian ) and his woeful bassoon.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2021
• Jeffrey played the bassoon, Mark the oboe, both in high demand in orchestras and other ensembles.
  — New York Times, 22 Apr. 2022
• The opening high-register bassoon accompanies a tender duet, the first such moment of the evening.
  — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Feb. 2023
• Take the opening measures of Humperdinck’s Prelude, chocolate cake harmonies richly and fully played by horns and bassoons.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Dec. 2017
• Hobin played in rock bands until deciding to focus on double bass at the age of 16; at the same age, Taghavi switched from saxophone and jazz to classical bassoon.
  — Elizabeth Nonemaker, baltimoresun.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• After hearing Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf in elementary school, Trevino resolved to learn the bassoon.
  — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 24 July 2020
• Rapid-fire single-note blasts from the trombone, answered by horn and bassoon, set strings dancing all around, with lots of minimalist pattern-work.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 2 Oct. 2020
• According to her father, Michal Slouka, Tatia’s passion and commitment to bassoon is a product of the way she’s wired.
  — Joe Rubino, The Denver Post, 23 May 2017
• In 2016, Martínez was watching her son Oskar play bassoon in a concert with his high school band when a man in the audience noticed her singing along and complimented her voice.
  — Richard Read Seattle Bureau Chief, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2020
• Who knew a bassoon cleaner could both look so sensual, and ultimately reveal who a killer is?
  — Marcus Jones, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2021
• In recording, the bassoons are often lost among the blasting brass, but Richard Svoboda and Suzanne Nelsen’s madcap currents were unmissable.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Oct. 2019
• The funeral march may here and there have been in slight violation of Mahler’s instruction not to drag, but was brightened by darting oboes and mournful bassoons.
  — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2023
• Growing up in Vermont, Gilmer played bassoon and tympani in her high school orchestra in Burlington.
  — George Varga, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Soluri’s fingers repeatedly could be seen flying over the bassoon keys with no aural evidence of his labors.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 14 Feb. 2020
• Bassoonists have even less chance to shine, and Sue Heineman, the orchestra’s principal bassoon, demonstrated that this is our loss.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2019
• Charlotte was where Sole was introduced to music, and her childhood was filled with lessons in violin, piano, clarinet, and bassoon, not to mention gospel choir.
  — Kelly Heinzerling, Philly.com, 7 Aug. 2017
• Till’s motifs swept though the ensemble, as horns, clarinets, bassoons, violin all had a chance to personate the character.
  — By Libby Hanssen, kansascity.com, 3 June 2017
• The first half of the program will feature Chamber Ensembles, including the brass choir, flute choir, clarinet choir, bassoon quartet, string trio and even a Mariachi ensemble.
  — Jen Banowetz, Naperville Sun, 8 Mar. 2018
• His identical twin, Solomon Elyaho, had made the long, green snake squash into the vegetable version of a reed instrument, something between a saxophone and a bassoon.
  — Annie Correal, The Seattle Times, 15 Aug. 2017
• From the start, Whitney Crockett’s opening bassoon solo had emotional presence that sounded fuller and richer than that of any single voice.
  — Los Angeles Times, 7 May 2022
• Jazz in the 21st century has embraced many instruments beyond the conventional ones—such as the bassoon, French horn, viola and accordion—so why not the harp?
  — Martin Johnson, WSJ, 14 June 2023

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024