The Christmas season rang in Downtown Crossing with a distinctive low note or, rather, 100 such low notes as just as many regional brass instrument players assembled for Boston’s annual TubaChristmas.

When Maestro Daniel Oren chastised principal tuba player Avital Handler for chatting during a lull during a recent dress rehearsal for “Il Trovatore, at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, she just grinned ...

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Melissa Cannan, coordinator, with a euphonium, and her niece, Morgen Fulmer, with a double-bell euphonium, wear buttons from their annual participation in Syracuse Tuba Christmas events. (Photo ...

A special concert is celebrating the holiday season and the tuba. NewsHour's Tim McPhillips reports on the role of this versatile booming brass instrument in the music we all love. It wasn't the famed ...

On the first TubaChristmas, around 300 musicians showed up at the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, bearing their giant brass instruments. A massive, all-tuba holiday concert was ...

Players of low brass instruments can usually be found sitting in the back row of an ensemble, keeping rhythm for the rest of the band and occasionally doubling the melodic lines of other sections. But ...

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival begins Friday, and music fans from all over the world will flock to the city's racetrack for seven days of music. A lot of things make New Orleans a one-of-a ...

Brass instruments have been around in one form or another for thousands of years. They've played a part in historical military campaigns, religious ceremonies, and—of course—the development of music ...