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The Long Path Together
No relationship is as important to an orchestral principal bassoonist as the one we share with the single-reed specialist who sits to our right. From Beethoven to Brahms, Schubert to Schoenberg, t...
Amelie Foster
My Husband Wes
I met Wes in 1977 when he joined the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (ISO), but we didn’t start dating until he asked me out for my Halloween birthday a year later. I fell in love with that tall, ...
Daniel Bonade
Memories of Wes Foster
If not for Wes Foster, those of you performing on Backun products might never have had the chance. Allow me to explain…
Wes and I both grew up in the greater Vancouver area. We both studied with a...