Andy Sorensen dressed his sousaphone up as Santa Clause. He's been performing at Anchorage TubaChristmas for 15 years. (Rhonda McBride/KNBA) The sounds that came from the Anchorage Performing Arts ...
Tuba Christmas, a nationwide holiday tradition, returned to Peoria on Sunday, bringing dozens of brass musicians together for ...
The rather disparate timbres of the tuba and French horn will come together at 3 p.m. today in Peter Hall on Moravian College’s Church Street campus. Grant W. Moore II, tuba, and Martin Webster, horn, ...
Researchers are working with e-scooter rental firms in Government trials around the UK. They are developing a noise to alert people to e-scooters, which currently only make a low whirring sound. The ...
Facts & Arguments is a daily personal piece submitted by readers. Have a story to tell? See our guidelines at tgam.ca/essayguide. Learning a musical instrument has a long list of benefits for children ...
Learning to play a musical instrument requires learning at least three distinct languages. One day in sixth grade I was informed by the band director that I would henceforth be playing a tuba. (Later ...
Let’s face it — the tuba isn’t exactly a sexy instrument. When one thinks tuba, some of the images generated are polka, old men (especially old men wearing black knee-high socks and bad plaid shorts) ...
Tuba Christmas, in its 41st anniversary year, broke a record Dec. 20 at the Chicago Palmer House Hilton, drawing more than 400 musicians who came to play the tuba, sousaphone or euphonium. Many ...
Travis Netzer can thank bad TV reception in the 1990s for his unique take on rock music. As a kid growing up on a farm outside of Ipswich, the Netzers didn’t have a satellite and picked up about ...
The captions that appear throughout “The Tuba Thieves” are generous, imaginative, and expansive, giving names to sounds we’re familiar with but have likely never thought to put into words. The sound ...