In the pantheon of musical instruments, the violin and piano reside at the top of the heap for use in the solo concerto genre. Toward the bottom of that list, perhaps just above the triangle, is the ...

Tuba player Michael Moore says playing the tuba is like being the goalie in a hockey game. You don't have much to do the whole game, but when the puck comes you have to be ready. But on today's ...

Children of the ‘50s and ‘60s may remember “Tubby the Tuba” -- the story, set to music, of a very shy brass instrument in a symphony orchestra. All Tubby wants is a solo. If his saga rings a bell, ...

Usually relegated to the back of the orchestra in a vital yet often overlooked role, the tuba will finally get the much-deserved spotlight when the 82nd season of the Long Beach Symphony’s classical ...

Everybody knows the tuba — the big, loud brass instrument at the back of the orchestra or the band, issuing the occasional oom-pah and playing long tones underneath all the other brass. But the tuba ...

And we close the hour with none other than a concerto for the lowest member of the brass family, the tuba. Aubrey Foard is the soloist with the orchestra at this summer's Music Academy of the West.

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 ...

Tuba or not tuba? That is the question. The Santa Fe Symphony answered yes, programming a concerto for an instrument that has long suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous comic insults. It opens ...