I started playing tuba in seventh grade. The tuba is a brass instrument, and it's the lowest in the brass instrument family. It has a really warm sound, and you can feel its presence.

(tuba playing) The sound of the tuba, in some pieces, you might not necessarily notice it's there unless you're really listening for it, but you'd definitely notice it if it was gone.

The 2022 tuba senior class. My 10 years of playing tuba will likely be coming to an end after MSU’s basketball season ends, as I play in the athletic bands, Spartan Brass as well.

Seeing her dad play every year, sparked an idea in Gretchen. “I saw dad play up on stage Tuba Christmas, and I just thought that would be an amazing thing to do with him,” Gretchen said.

While it’s been over five years since Solange released an album, she’s been hard at work. Back in 2022, she debuted an original score for the New York City ballet for a performance called Play ...

A young man sits alone in a room, a tuba on his lap, and blows it hard, huffing and puffing to play Snedecor’s Low Étude for Tuba Number 4. It’s a head-rattling piece in a profoundly low ...