The annual Tuba Christmas concert on the steps of McMurran Hall brought holiday cheer and awareness, once again, to the unique attributes of the low registered members of the brass instrument family.

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. WEST PARIS — On Sunday, August 8 at 2 p.m., at the West Paris Public Library ...

Rising star Fumiaki Miura will play the Elgar Violin Concerto with the Utah Symphony next weekend. But the orchestra also will have another, less visible guest: a French tenor tuba with an illustrious ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. WEST PARIS – The tuba ensemble Low Commotion will present a concert at 2 p.m ...

For the past 29 years, dozens of players from the Philadelphia region have been able to show just how versatile their overlooked instruments are with “TubaChristmas.” An ensemble of 100 tuba, ...

As any musician knows, it takes a lot of brass to be a tuba player. Generally, tubas range in size from the B-flat tenor (10 Ibs., 151 in. of tubing), which is hugged to the player’s chest and ...

PUMPKIN-EATER did not depend on commentators to explain the meaning of his Roller Coaster Suite. He printed his own programme on the score: — Night — The Ascent — The Wild Surmise — Lost in the Clouds ...

Part of what I like the best about hearing music performed is learning new things – about whether the composer’s style seemed to have his or her “stamp,” or about the harmonics of a particular work, ...

You could say two bands are better than one — and so are 13 tubas. For its spring concert, the Naperville Municipal Band will share the stage with the Fox Valley Brass Band at 3 p.m. April 14 at Wentz ...

With this latest incarnation of The Light, the moniker bestowed on most of reedman Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre's ensembles over the years, the sparse moodiness of AACM "little instruments" and ...