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 ...

Swiss Musician's Legal Challenge To 'Noisy' Tuba Ban Falls Flat. A Swiss tuba player's bid to overturn a noise pollution ban ...

Professional tuba players' salaries can vary widely depending on where their home orchestras are located and on the lengths of their average season. As of 2020, professional musicians made just over ...

The tuba is a funny instrument. Its sound is like a gaseous rumbling from deep within the earth—or our bellies. Hardly fleet of foot—it’s heavy, often pushing 30 pounds, and awkward—it’s seldom given ...

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 ...

Tuba virtuoso Øystein Baadsvik is putting a little bit of omph into his effort to push the oft-dismissed instrument to the front of the stage If you remember drive-in burger joints, you’ll remember ...

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 ...

The tuba players mass by the hundreds every year on the Rockefeller Center ice-skating rink to play carols and other festive fare, a holiday ritual now ingrained in the consciousness of New York. The ...