A 17-year-old is making history with Empire State Youth Orchestra, becoming the first tuba player to win the concerto ...
Traditional Mexican music, known as 'banda,' has been popular in Southern California for decades. And now, the tuba has gone from carrying the bass line in the back of the band, to stepping out front ...
WKAR Current Sports reporter never intended to play the tuba, or be part of the section for most of his life. He’s glad the journey took him to the back of the band. There are 300 members in Michigan ...
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 ...
Sacramento-based composer, educator and professional tubist Portia Njoku opens our eyes to the expansive world of her ...
For some years now, the tuba has been going through a metamorphosis. Call it, as I do, a Tuba Civil Rights Movement. People long associated the instrument with polkas, elephants, clowns, and players ...
Lincoln Tezak, a Stevenson High School sophomore, got a perfect score of 100 as a tuba soloist at the Michigan State Band and ...
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 ...
Decked out in their holiday finery, hundreds of local tuba and euphonium players gathered Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in the Crown Center Square for their annual TubaChristmas holiday concert. Tammy ...