Roadside Mysteries

A: Everyone cheers when the case is closed.

“It is Bassoon!”

And it can be seen at something called “Bassoon-a-RAM-a” at the CSU Center for the Arts, sponsored in part by the Lilla Morgan Memorial Fund. Lilla Morgan was the wife of the late president emeritus William Morgan. The fund provides grants to visiting artists for CSU.

Concerts and workshops in Griffin Hall

Note the RAMS balancing on the tops of bassoons with the mountains in the background.

Sonata for Bassoon and Piano by Cioffari

Here bassoonist Sarah Fish played the piano while Melanie Fisher played the bassoon.

Beth Wells (cello) and Tom Bittinger (bassoon)

They played Mozart’s ‘Sonata for Bassoon and Cello’

Sarah Fish (bassoon)

Sarah played Malcolm Arnold’s ‘Fantasie for Bassoon, Op. 86’

And finally Mignone’s ‘Sonata for Two Bassoons’

Gary Moody and Kathleen McLean.

Moody is Associate Professor of Double Reeds and Theory at CSU. McLean is Associate Professor of Bassoon at the University of Indiana and is one of the most acclaimed orchestral bassoonists in North America.

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