A young man sits alone in a room, a tuba on his lap, and blows it hard, huffing and puffing to play Snedecor’s Low Étude for Tuba Number 4. It’s a head-rattling piece in a profoundly low register — ...
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 ...
You know the scene: chestnuts roasting on a crackling open fire, stockings hung by the chimney with care, presents nestled under a brilliantly lit tree … and the dulcet oom-pah-pah of a tuba. Okay, ...
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 June 18 ...
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 ...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Of the many sights and sounds that tell the story of Nashville rush hour traffic, none of the others turn heads quite like Joe Hunter. After all, it's not a common sight to ...
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 ...
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