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 ...

Paul Bruce plays his tuba Dec. 16 during the annual TubaChristmas concert at the Red Lion Hotel in Kalispell. (Heidi Desch/Daily Inter Lake) Allen Slater, retired Flathead High School band director, ...

The tuba is often relegated to the back of an orchestra or the butt of a joke, but tuba lovers — the few and the proud — are passionate about their chosen instrument. So much so that there's an annual ...

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 ...

Pasternack, who is from Brooklyn, N.Y., and Benedict, who graduated from Port Angeles High School, are both University of ...

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 ...

A unique Christmas music event will take place Saturday, Dec. 20, at the Georgia Square mall in Athens when a large group of tuba players gather for a concert. The concert begins at 11:30 a.m.

The Santa Barbara Chamber Players will present a benefit concert featuring Gene Pokorny, principal tuba of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Santa Barbara pianist Mi-Young Kim, 3 p.m. Friday, Feb.

"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, ...

ALVA, Okla. — The instrumental music program at Northwestern Oklahoma State University plans to present a free TubaChristmas concert and needs a little help from the public. TubaChristmas is open to ...

MASON CITY — The 31st annual North Iowa TubaChristmas concert will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 10, in Southbridge Mall’s Center Court in Mason City. Any tuba, sousaphone, euphonium or baritone player ...