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 ...

A special concert is celebrating the holiday season and the tuba. NewsHour's Tim McPhillips reports on the role of this versatile booming brass instrument in the music we all love. It wasn't the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...