Concertos written for the tuba are very rare. A concerto written for the massive low brass instrument with a movement that seeks to replicate the sounds of a wind tunnel is unique. The third movement ...

Over 80 tuba players from ages 7 to 70 performed in the 18th annual Liverpool High School Tuba Christmas. The Tuba Christmas was created by Harvey Phillips in 1974. Today, Tuba Christmas concerts are ...

Even the brass wore masks. But the big, black bell covers on the instruments couldn’t stop the favorite songs of Christmas from bellowing out of the Bonner Park bandshell on Saturday. Dozens of ...

Otis Hutchins and a couple-hundred of his tuba-playing friends broke out the brass Sunday night for Glendale’s 34th annual Merry Tuba Christmas. The concert at Glendale Civic Center brings out those ...

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 ...

Five days a week, just past the crack of dawn, you can see them coming from all corners of campus, awkwardly misshapen packages in tow. Though it's early, as soon as the family of 18 congregates, the ...

OcTUBAfest, an annual four-day festival of horn music, will take place in the Madsen Recital Hall Wednesday through Saturday, Oct. 25-28, at Brigham Young University. Admission to all events is free.

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 ...

Theon Cross can still vividly remember when the instrument that’s taken him around the world was more of a liability than an asset. “Playing the tuba didn’t make me cool when I was at school,” the ...

It hardly seems fair that Kelly Galarneau gets the most questions of anyone in Brass Differential and yet has the least amount of air to expend on things like casual conversation. But it’s hard to ...

Eight local tuba players gathered at the Old Town Gazebo in Eureka recently to celebrate International Tuba Day. “It was wonderful. We all felt such relief and joy to be able to play together in ...