PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Carol Jantsch, the principal tuba of The Philadelphia Orchestra, will be playing a concerto on March 26th, 27th and 28th at Verizon Hall. "This concerto is called 'Reflections on ...

Children of the ‘50s and ‘60s may remember “Tubby the Tuba” -- the story, set to music, of a very shy brass instrument in a symphony orchestra. All Tubby wants is a solo. If his saga rings a bell, ...

Usually relegated to the back of the orchestra in a vital yet often overlooked role, the tuba will finally get the much-deserved spotlight when the 82nd season of the Long Beach Symphony’s classical ...

Concertos written for the tuba are very rare. A concerto written for the massive low brass instrument with a movement that seeks to replicate the sounds of a wind tunnel is unique. The third movement ...

Everybody knows the tuba — the big, loud brass instrument at the back of the orchestra or the band, issuing the occasional oom-pah and playing long tones underneath all the other brass. But the tuba ...

Big changes often start with small steps, as recent events have shown us. At Boston University Tuesday night, one of those changes may have begun with a symphony orchestra, a composer and a new ...

Tuba player Michael Moore says playing the tuba is like being the goalie in a hockey game. You don't have much to do the whole game, but when the puck comes you have to be ready. But on today's ...

The main thing to bear in mind is that the tuba is a lyrical instrument, capable of all sorts, not just the bass notes in Wagner music-dramas and the impressive bits of Mahler and Bruckner. It has a ...

"June is bustin' out all over." Of course, credit for that line belongs to Rodgers and Hammerstein and their exuberant song from the musical Carousel. And I have no doubt that genius pair would ...

The Roman tuba was such an integral part of the civic life of the country -- battles, funerals, religious ceremonies -- its players, called tubicines sacrorum populi romani, often enjoyed the rank of ...

1/28/18: A young tuba player took center stage Sunday at the Vermont Youth Orchestra’s Winter Concert at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington. Malachi Witt shows off the uncommon ...

Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky conducted the world premiere of his own Symphony No. 6, the “Pathétique,” on Oct. 28, 1893. A little more than a week later, on Nov. 6, he was dead at 53, in circumstances ...