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 ...

When the American Brass Quintet formed 45 years ago, classical brass music had been going through a quiet phase – for some 400 years.According to Raymond Mase, a trumpeter who joined the American ...

A wave of deep brass tones echoed through the Shigemi Matsumoto Recital Hall on Saturday, Oct. 26, as Dr. P. Blake Cooper lifted his tuba and kicked off this year’s OcTUBAfest. The annual celebration ...

Five tremendous brass musicians--each a virtuoso in his own right--form the legendary Canadian Brass. With an international reputation as one of the most popular brass ensembles today, Canadian Brass ...

I n October ​ I went to the Royal Albert Hall to watch the final of the National Brass Band Championships. Each of the nineteen finalists plays a fiendishly difficult test piece to a half-full hall ...

In “A Tuba to Cuba,” New Orleans musician Ben Jaffe pays tribute to his father, Allan Jaffe, a fellow tuba player, who moved his family to New Orleans in the early 1960s and in 1961 became, with his ...

"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, ...

On Saturday afternoon, Portlanders near Pioneer Courthouse Square will be welcomed with the sound of Christmas music played by 200 tubas. This year marks the 31st year of Tuba Christmas in Portland, ...