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The Bismarck Veterans Memorial Public Library is hosting the Missouri Valley Chamber Orchestra Brass Quintet in the ...
Six musicians are in a circle in the living room — on one side, trumpet and trombone; on the other, cello, viola and violin; and in the middle, the elephant in the room — Stewart's tuba.
The Freeland Brass Quartet will be performing in the Freeland Public Park Pavilion at 6:30 p.m. Friday, June 13 at 6:30 p.m.
“I got braces in middle school, and trumpet didn’t feel good,” she explains. “Euphonium worked better with my face.” Tuba Christmas began in New York City in 1974. The founder, Harvey ...
In the "Ring," four Wagner tubas join an enlarged brass section that includes other orchestral rarities like the bass trumpet, contrabass trombone and contrabass tuba, creating "choirs" of ...
Any mistake a tuba player makes is immediately obvious because of the size of the instrument. I began band in fifth grade as a trumpet, because I thought the instrument looked cool. I was only 10 ...
A NOCCA and SUNO graduate, and self-taught player of trombone, tuba, trumpet, piano, saxopohone and drums, Johnson's career started professionally at age 12, when he began playing alongside three ...
Gil Evans and trumpet virtuoso Dizzy Gillespie. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) BOB STEWART: He was like Dizzy Gillespie on the tuba. CORNISH: That's fellow tuba player Bob Stewart. (SOUNDBITE ...
Miller: Chuck, what about you? How did you become a tuba player? Bolton: Well, I started band in the fourth grade on trumpet, and I was a terrible trumpet player. Out of 12 kids, I was the 12th ...
“So often, as a tubist, you sit in the back going 'bom, bom, bom, bom,” 37-year-old Natalie Sheeler explained as she mimicked the tuba's tell-tale “oompa” sound. Once a year ...