Music saved David Endicott’s life. Endicott was a wayward youth when a band director named Emery Nordness took an interest in him. It changed Endicott’s life. “I was a kid headed for trouble, hanging ...

“The original intent was to popularize the instrument,” Hovey notes. “Most people hadn’t heard the tuba at all except in a marching band.” Musician Harvey Phillips launched Tuba ...

marching band, and the MJ Winter Winds program. He is a multi-instrumentalist, but plays tuba in the majority of the ensembles. Other instruments he has played include piano, electric and acoustic ...