If classical music bears any comparison to the sport of tennis, then Jonathan Sherwin is an all-court player, an artist defined by his versatility. For Sherwin, a bassoonist in the Cleveland Orchestra ...

Bassoons have been called the clown of the orchestra, an ill wind, and even a burping bedpost. It seems the one-and-a-quarter meter tall wooden tubes get no respect. Except, perhaps, at the annual ...