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 ...

Probably more than any other instrument in an orchestra, the tuba has the sound of authority — big, brassy, deep and imposing. For the young, struggling John Van Houten, that sound inspired the ...

Normally, if someone invited me to go to a tuba concert, I would not be overly enthusiastic. Nothing against tubas, mind you, but a full blown sit-down-and-listen-to-tuba concert would probably not be ...

Whether you know it or not, you’ve heard Jim Self play. The longtime tubist of the Pacific Symphony has been the go-to tubist in Hollywood for decades. His claim to fame is this: When the giant alien ...

Finishing his 39th season with the Houston Symphony, David Kirk has heard all the tuba jokes. He doesn’t mind. “If people say ‘oom-pah, oom-pah’ when they see me, that’s OK, because that’s a huge part ...

It is so gratifying when two of my favorite things join forces. And that is happily the case with the annual Merry Tuba Christmas concert and the Ms. Cheap Penny Drive for Second Harvest Food Bank.