Photographs by Benjamin Mendlowitz
In all of the United States there is but one active maker of historical bassoons. Three years ago that maker, musician Leslie Ross, moved from a sixth floor studio in New York City’s Lower East Side to a former cannery built above a stream that flows into Penobscot, Maine’s Northern Bay.
In all of Maine there are merely a handful of avant garde musicians. Perhaps two handfuls. Now, this same creator of baroque and classic bassoons is adding sound installations and experimental music festivals to downeast Maine’s performance repertoire.
