Early in 2018, YouTube made changes to how we commoners can earn money through its Partner Program (or “YPP”). You probably heard about it here and, oh yeah, here. Now seems like a good time to ...

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 register — ...

When Santa suit-wearing tuba and euphonium players take the stage at Bloomington’s Holiday Market, they will be participating in a holiday tradition 45 years in the making. TubaChristmas, which began ...

Jon Hodkin is on his second tricycling tour through the Midwest as part of a musical journey up the Mississippi River. Early in his travels through Minnesota, a Lake City boat club helped ferry him ...

Intra-I, the second album by tuba player and London jazz star Theon Cross is many things — a deeply personal exploration of self, a remarkable achievement in the possibility of sound, and also the ...

The Vincent and Ethel Simonetti Historic Tuba Collection is the world's largest privately held collection of members of the tuba family. Vincent's goal has been to obtain tubas that were produced from ...

On a January 2018 morning, 12 undergraduate and graduate musicians in the University of New Mexico's tuba ensemble prepared to travel to Canada for the group's first international performance. Before ...

For some years now, the tuba has been going through a metamorphosis. Call it, as I do, a Tuba Civil Rights Movement. People long associated the instrument with polkas, elephants, clowns, and players ...

When she joined the Boston Pops in 1955, she was believed to be the first woman to play tuba in a major American orchestra. By Julia Carmel A lot of people had one question for Constance Weldon, she ...