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 ...

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 ...

Little drummer boys need not apply. Trumpets: Go sound somewhere else. French horns? Don’t even think about it. Only tubas and their kin can ride this train. At noon Monday, Steve Shoop will lug ...