The Met has a new principal bassoon
mainThe Sarasota Orchestra’s Evan Epifanio has won the audition for principal bassoon at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Good, they’ll need him. Just in time for them to break off and be a competing symphony orchestra with a nice endowment, while the Met building collapses in a final immolation scene!
The bassoon is a prominent member of the orchestral family. An orchestra without bassoons is like a fresh slice of bread without a crispy crust.
Brilliant. May I use that?
How ’bout, “an orchestra without oboes is like a day of rest”?
One could also say: ‘An orchestra without oboes is like a day without a nagging house wife’ or, more friendly: ‘….. is like a vegetarian barbeque’.
Thanks. I’ll write those down. You’ll get the credit.
He’s hot.
(Sorry if that’s harassment, but I’m just stating a fact.)
If you said that about a woman you’d be burned at the stake. Ah, double standards!
“If you said that about a woman you’d be burned at the stake”
He wouldn’t be, actually. (Not even figuratively)
You’re insufferable.
And how DARE you assume “Anon’s” gender to be male! Patriarchy!! Blagh!!!
LOL
I suspect Slipped Disc’s commentariat is about 95% male – just like the clientele at classical record shops back when they still existed. So probably a safe bet.
I suspect some of the “males” are really women.
. . . and I suspect the women are neither – JUST KIDDING!
He’s indeed hot (and I do like a good bassoon). And I’m a woman … 😉
I never thought the words “hot” and “bassoon” would ever get used in the sentence, much less same paragraph. Live and learn.
Apparently you don’t know about the attractivenes, for middle-aged second violinists, of tuba players.
Hey, here in Spain the bassoon is definitely hot! This tv ad for a car called “Fagot” (bassoon in Spanish) came out not long ago & it did wonders for bassoonists’ image!
“El fagot mola” means “the bassoon is cool”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUfAARZI42I
Love the ending where the oboist just doesn’t cut it with the cute girl! 🙂
I don’t know. In the U.S., if you opened your trunk, pulled out a bassoon and pointed it at someone or something, you might well get shot.
Then again, it’s fairly likely in the US even without a bassoon…
I know his aunt. Years.
I know his uncle. Days.
Handling the bassoon is not always without disturbing side-effects – apart from wrong notes:
http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/someone-called-911-but-this-man-maple-instrument-wasn-gun-was-bassoon/c9275VpPesPWZoNPNydoZL/
I see I posted my previous thought too soon.
OH Evan, I’m so excited and proud of you. I feel pretty honored to say I was your classroom music teacher. You will be amazing! Congratulations!!!
Congrats Evan!!! So proud of you!
Heard him play, literally the best bassoonist of all time. Ever. Period.
Best bassoonist I’ve ever heard. Easily.