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 ...

Last year, as a 9-year-old, he played a real tuba. “This is a great way for people who play the lower brass instruments to come together and have fun,” Reaves says. “Normally, you’re in ...

AT SIX. TAKE THIS HOLIDAY SONG AND ADD MORE. WE AVERAGE BETWEEN 60 AND 80 PERFORMERS, ALL BRASS INSTRUMENTS. THIS IS VIDEO OF THE ANNUAL TUBA CHRISTMAS PERFORMANCE IN GREENVILLE. WE GET TOGETHER ...

You haven’t truly heard “Silent Night,” says John Ritz, until you’ve heard it played by 100 tubas. “People laugh,” says the musician, who lives in Hopkinton. “But the arrangement we ...

These low brass instruments don’t often get to take center stage, but Michigan has 12 of these events, including in Detroit, Flint, Ann Arbor and Houghton. “There are tuba Christmas ...

Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi famously hated the tuba, describing it as a “devilish” creation that did not blend with the rest of the orchestra. The composer insisted on the design of a new ...

By Javier C. Hernández As a child growing up in rural Canada, the trombonist Hillary Simms did not realize that women were scarce among players of brass instruments — the tuba, the French horn ...

But old brass instruments of comparable pedigrees don ... former principal horn Dale Clevenger for 47 and principal tuba Arnold Jacobs for 44. Friedman just completed an astonishing 61 seasons ...