Word: tuba
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...album will feature the sounds of the world's largest tuba and an original song written for the band last spring by satirical composer P.D.Q. Bach...
...this misery might be avoided, according to Dr. Charles Brantigan, University of Colorado heart surgeon and part-time tuba player. In an experiment conducted at New York's Juilliard School and the University of Nebraska, Brantigan, together with his conductor-brother Thomas (whose idea it was), tested the effect of a hypertension drug called propranolol on the performance anxiety of 29 professional and student musicians. Each subject gave two solo recitals before an audience of critics and faculty members. Ninety minutes before one recital, they were given propranolol; on the other occasion, a placebo...
...right down the street from the Museum of Modern Art and got away with charging $3.50 for a small sandwich. I used to linger in front of it every so often to hear a brass quintet called the Waldo Park Players. "Where is Waldo Park?" someone once asked the tuba player. "This is Waldo Park!" he said, gesturing to the northeast corner of 53rd and Sixth. Later that summer, I ran into the Players on Bleecker St., in Greenwich Village. Someone in the crowd asked the same question. "This is Waldo Park," came the answer...
Jesse usually begged off when sides were chosen for a sand-lot ball game, and he had no girlfriend. But he played the violin and he excelled at the tuba. He practiced with the Monroe High School
...bottom line is fun, the people from Toledo say. And they have it. One night last week, Dunford says he had three trombones and a tuba accompanying his organ work. "It was a great night. We even ran out of hot dog buns," he says...