bassoonist
Americannoun
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bassoonists
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The bakery owner is actually a musician, a bassoonist with a performance degree from Pacific Lutheran University.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
There was glorious interplay throughout between oboist Nicholas Stovall, bassoonist Sue Heineman and flutist Aaron Goldman.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2023
Rebekah Heller, the ensemble’s bassoonist, responded to the upward-swooping graphic notation of “Red Hills” with a peppery excitement that rivaled earlier interpretations of it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2023
She was a concert bassoonist and an actor.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2022
The bassoonist, a man of sallow and heavy cast, said, “You carry tales.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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Sara Schoenbeck is one of the few improvising bassoonists of her pedigree, but she rarely makes music as a leader.
From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
I’m sure the bassoonists who are watching the show feel seen.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
I was jealous of their training, because in Congo there are no other bassoonists outside of the orchestra.”
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 9, 2015
Passing the two bassoonists on his way into the pit he commented on a tricky unison passage.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 27, 2010
Simultaneously, the thousand other flags also fell, as massed trumpeters and bassoonists in the Court of Honor played “The Star-Spangled Banner” and “America.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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