Go ahead... touch my bassoon...
Becky dares to!
So this summer at Tanglewood I had an idea. I got a puppet from Burger King- one of the gargoyles from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". I decided that I should get some of the interesting people at Tanglewood to pose with this dumb puppet while passersby took pictures of us. Well, the passerby was usually Charlie DeRamus, a seemingly normal bass player who is actually really twisted. The result was a series of about a dozen pictures of me, the puppet, and God knows who else. I've scanned a few, and I'll be adding more as time allows.
Don "MacDaddy" MacCourt, me, and the puppet. Don is a bassoonist here in NYC, and the person who keeps the wind players at Tanglewood from murdering Gil Kalish.
James Taylor and you-know-who. Boy, he looks so uncomfortable.
Seiji Ozawa and the usuals. Seiji was pretty hammered, so he was only too happy to pose. But then again, we were all pretty wasted too. After this party we went to the shed stage and jumped around naked until security nearly busted us. Then we went to the theater pit and laughed as certain people called phone sex lines from the orchestra manager's desk. Har Har!
I call this picture "Tangle-twits" and if you knew the people in the photo you would too!
Dan Matsukawa recently won principal bassoon of the National Symphony in DC, so I thought it appropriate to put a picture of him up.
Gathered at Danny's feet in this photo you'll find Jane Brown, Martin Kuuskmann, myself and Tom Novak.
Looking for a discography of contrabassoon music? Look no further. Please forgive who ever this guy is for misspelling Brad Buckley.
Coming soon, a picture of Kevin Finamore eating! Exciting!