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 ...

I failed at the saxophone so I don’t need the 6 easiest brass instruments to play in a band. But maybe you do. Maybe you, unlike me, did not fail at saxophone. Maybe you will pass or even succeed!

EDGEWATER, Colo. — The success of any band starts with the instruments. But sometimes those instruments are really hard to find. "When I first got here, I didn't even know what a tuba was," seventh ...

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 ...

Just like coughing, sneezing, talking and singing, playing wind instruments ­-- particularly those in the brass section -- can spread respiratory particles that may carry the COVID-19 virus, according ...

In hundreds of cities across the U.S. –- and a few abroad, too –- tuba and euphonium players are gathering for an annual tradition: TubaChristmas. The mandate of the event is simple: Gather a group of ...

The Brass Ensemble performs as a brass choir and as the 19th century styled W&M Cornet Band. Membership: Is open to all brass playing Willam & Mary students as well as community members. Musicians in ...

Learn about the brass family of instruments — their sounds, mouthpieces and harmonics. Professor Richard Church, conductor of the University of Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, hosts this exploration of ...

BYU music professor Steve Call will perform in this weekend's OcTUBAfest concerts. (Steve Call) Time for tuba. OcTubafest is here for the BYU community to celebrate the large brass instrument in free ...

As Southern California awoke to the wreckage from a recent massive windstorm, music teacher Ruben Gonzalez Jr. was assessing a different sort of devastation in his band room at South Gate High School.