The tuba is a funny instrument. Its sound is like a gaseous rumbling from deep within the earth—or our bellies. Hardly fleet of foot—it’s heavy, often pushing 30 pounds, and awkward—it’s seldom given ...
On the first TubaChristmas, around 300 musicians showed up at the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, bearing their giant brass instruments. A massive, all-tuba holiday concert was ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Especially this time of year, Christmas concerts are easy to find. But we're willing to bet you won't find a concert that resonates and literally reverberates like Tuba ...
Add the tuba to the list of book subjects you probably thought you didn’t care about but that is suddenly compelling as heck. We’ve had entire books about salt, the digestive system and the color ...
The tuba players mass by the hundreds every year on the Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink to play carols and other festive fare, a holiday ritual now ingrained in the consciousness of New York. The ...
Bill Barber, a musician who helped refashion the jazz tuba from its predictable oompah passages to suit the complex melodies and rhythms of Miles Davis and other postwar jazz modernists, died of ...
Howard Johnson, an American jazz musician known for his mastery of tuba and baritone saxophone, has died at age 79. NPR remembers his life and legacy. Johnson played a range of instruments from the ...
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