Dec. 5—More than 40 musicians playing tubas, sousaphones, flugelhorns, and other brass instruments in the tuba family brought an unusually deep, mellow sound to Christmas in downtown Ada. The event, ...

Learning to play a musical instrument requires learning at least three distinct languages. One day in sixth grade I was informed by the band director that I would henceforth be playing a tuba. (Later ...

Andy Sorensen dressed his sousaphone up as Santa Clause. He's been performing at Anchorage TubaChristmas for 15 years. (Rhonda McBride/KNBA) The sounds that came from the Anchorage Performing Arts ...

On the one hand, Drums and Tuba are just your average rock power trio, logging 200 or so dates a year on the road. Typically, there’s guitar, there’s drums and, well, here’s where the analogy starts ...

Let’s face it–the tuba isn’t exactly a sexy instrument. When one thinks tuba, among the images generated are: polka, old men (detail: old men wearing black knee-high socks and bad plaid shorts), and ...

“A Promise Derailed.” Such of phrase could easily have been etched on Ray Draper’s tombstone to describe the tubaist’s trials in life and music. Killed in a botched robbery at the tragic age of 42 his ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The 32nd annual American-phenomenon, TubaChristmas had a successful turnout at Bonner Park in Missoula on Saturday. It was an annual revival for the 48-year international tradition.

Filmmaker Alison O'Daniel departs from a series of robberies, in which instruments were stolen from Los Angeles schools in the early 2010s, to provide an unconventionally audiovisual experience. If ...

The material details of the musical instrument larcenies that took place across high schools in south Los Angeles between 2011 and 2013 don’t transpire in filmmaker Alison O’Daniel’s audaciously ...