Jul 23rd, 2008 · This week, from the Hawaii Theater in Honolulu, a teenage pianist from Honolulu plays Prokofiev, the Hawaii Youth Opera Chorus sings a Chinese folk song, and a young tuba player who's gone to extremes in the orchestra while awaiting his next entrance, plays Schumann. This program originally aired on January 9, 2008.
Dec 21st, 2007 · Since 1974, U.S. tuba players have gathered en masse to play Christmas music in tribute to William J. Bell, a beloved figure in the annals of American tuba history, who died on Christmas Day in 1971. For the 33rd Tuba Christmas, musicians in 224 cities across the U.S. -- including Fredericksburg, Va. -- are scheduled to participate.
Jan 4th, 2007 · Sing, stomp and shout with tuba player Kendrick Oliver and the New Life Jazz Orchestra at Berklee College of Music in Boston -- they swing like a young Count Basie Band gone to church. Produced by WGBH in Boston, and hosted by WGBH's Eric Jackson, it's part of the Toast of the Nation New Year's concerts.
Dec 5th, 2006 · Over the weekend, 99 tuba players gathered to play a few tunes in honor one of their own, a studio musician named Tommy Johnson. Johnson played on a number of famous Hollywood scores, including the theme from Jaws.
Oct 25th, 2006 · Hazmat Modine is a New York band fronted by two harmonica players. Their repertoire starts with blues and branches into various genres of Americana, but always with a difference: tuba bass lines, lacings of Eastern European hammer dulcimer, or Tuvan throat singing. The group's debut CD is Bahamut -- reviewer Banning Eyre says its charm lies in how it lends an air of mystery and other-worldliness to familiar sounds.
Sep 15th, 2006 · Carol Jantsch, 21, soon will be the Philadelphia Orchestra's youngest member, and the first woman to be a principal tuba player in a top U.S. orchestra.
Mar 2nd, 2006 · 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. Hear Moore perform Ralph Vaughan Williams' Tuba Concerto with the Atlanta Symphony.
Feb 17th, 2005 · The musical quartet Devotchka uses upright bass, glockenspiel, tuba, accordian, trumpet and theramin in an exotic mix of South American rhythms, Eastern European gypsy melodies and North American folk music. Mikel Jollett of Filter magazine reviews the CD How It Ends.