OAKLAND — Tuba players, long relegated to the back row of large brass bands, took total control of the stage at Jack London Square on Sunday in the city’s first-ever “Tuba Christmas” event. More than ...

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.

About 60 musicians attended the 12th annual Pokorny Low Brass Seminar held June 18-23 on the University of Redlands campus. The seminar, for trombone and tuba players, is named for Gene Pokorny, ...

For Tim Hansen, a midlife crisis turned into a Christmas tradition. When he turned 40, he told his wife he was either getting a motorcycle or returning to his childhood love of playing the tuba. “She ...

Tuba, or not tuba? For the more than 80 low brass instrumentalists and the hundreds gathered at Valparaiso University’s Chapel of the Resurrection Sunday afternoon for the 14th annual TubaChristmas, ...

The 1,200-seat Historic Elsinore Theatre — and likely the streets beyond — rumbled Tuesday with the sound of low, low brass notes. The occasion was the first Salem Tuba Holiday, an alternativeto Salem ...

The Christmas carols were familiar, but the sound was deeper Saturday at Central United Methodist Church, as Detroit's sixth Merry TubaChristmas concert celebrated the holidays with bass and brass.

On a hot, humid afternoon, Bob Stewart has called a rehearsal at his Harlem apartment. Six musicians are in a circle in the living room — on one side, trumpet and trombone; on the other, cello, viola ...

On a new record called Connections: Mind the Gap, tuba player Bob Stewart sums up his career with a showcase of the instrument's versatility. On a hot, humid afternoon, Bob Stewart has called a ...