Barry Blogs

Another bassoonist in the news! No Nobel Prize Winner this time, just a member of the cast of the television show, The Office. Yes, Dwi...

Happy Thanksgiving! Those reading in the U.S. may have some extra time on this holiday weekend, so here are two recent posts to inspire yo...

In case you don't know the wonderful story of William Moerner, a bassoonist who is now a Nobel Laureate, here it is below. Courtesy of R...

Our next stop was Milan. We arrived in the early afternoon. Quite often when a large group like ours checks in to a hotel in the morning o...

Our next stop was Luxembourg. It has a wonderful, modern concert hall -- the Philharmonie. A good acoustic and a feeling of comfort on st...

The Orchestra's first stop was in Brussels, where we played a concert in the Palais des Beaux Arts -- a beautiful Art Deco temple with r...

The Jet d'Eau in Geneva I'm writing this from the cafeteria at CERN in Geneva. If my prose is a little lacking in self-confidence, ...