Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Conductor Lori Karns leads 65 tuba players during a "Tuba Christmas" performance at Noe Valley Town Square on Dec. 14, 2025.

At special holiday concerts across Ohio, tuba, baritone and euphonium players take the center stage. If you’re part of an orchestra, here’s a line you probably don’t hear often: “The melody with this ...

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 ...

Merry Tuba Christmas was conceived in 1974 by Harvey Phillips as a tribute to his teacher and mentor, William J. Bell, who was born on Christmas Day in 1902. The annual celebration honors Bell’s ...

John Walton was a man who loved his cats, his tuba, Saturday breakfasts at La Madeleine and a certain bearded Italian tenor. “His big love was (Luciano) Pavarotti, whom he played over and over again, ...

YOUTUBE STARTING IN THE YEAR 2029. ALL NEW AT NOON, THE CREW OF MORPHEUS ANNOUNCING THAT KENT BROUSSARD, AKA TIGER TWO. BUT KENT WILL BE THE GRAND MARSHAL OF THIS YEAR’S PARADE. KENT MADE HEADLINES ...

Amazing things can happen when you learn to play an instrument. Just ask the Utica Community Schools music teacher who has been invited to perform in an elite brass band competition in Switzerland ...

Tuba ChristmasThere are few better ways to let the neighborhood know the holiday season is here than to sound off with 200 tubas. Merry Tuba Christmas will resonate at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Alex ...

"Tuba Christmas" has reached the halfway point, and a holiday miracle is imminent. Sixty-five musicians hold massive euphoniums, sousaphones and tubas in Noe Valley Town Square, with nary a trumpet, ...