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 ...

Merry Tuba Christmas was conceived in 1974 by Harvey Phillips as a tribute to his teacher and mentor, William J. Bell, who was born on Christmas Day in 1902. The annual celebration honors Bell’s ...

At special holiday concerts across Ohio, tuba, baritone and euphonium players take the center stage. If you’re part of an orchestra, here’s a line you probably don’t hear often: “The melody with this ...

When he turned 40, he told his wife he was either getting a motorcycle or returning to his childhood love of playing the tuba. “She said, ‘Get whatever tuba you want, honey,’ Hansen said. He then ...

"Tuba Christmas" has reached the halfway point, and a holiday miracle is imminent. Sixty-five musicians hold massive euphoniums, sousaphones and tubas in Noe Valley Town Square, with nary a trumpet, ...

Learn about the brass section’s biggest instrument from two totally tuba-lar tuba players. Learn about the brass section’s biggest instrument from two totally tuba-lar tuba players; high school senior ...

Tuba ChristmasThere are few better ways to let the neighborhood know the holiday season is here than to sound off with 200 tubas. Merry Tuba Christmas will resonate at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Alex ...

YOUTUBE STARTING IN THE YEAR 2029. ALL NEW AT NOON, THE CREW OF MORPHEUS ANNOUNCING THAT KENT BROUSSARD, AKA TIGER TWO. BUT KENT WILL BE THE GRAND MARSHAL OF THIS YEAR’S PARADE. KENT MADE HEADLINES ...