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...move and are frozen to the spot. One bunny pulls a wagon with a boom box that blares "Little Bunny Foo Foo," and a bunny brass band, with a tuba and trombone, marches by. I glance at my cousin and see the light sparkling from his eyes. "See?" says the oldest man at Burning Man. At last he'd found his inspiration. "This is the kind of thing you could never explain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Oldest Man at Burning Man | 9/1/2008 | See Source »

...brother will be on her side of the party with her roommate and best friend as bridesmaids, while Hetrick’s female best friend will be the best (wo)man. The Rev. James Savage, who supported the groom-to-be during his confirmation, will celebrate the Mass. The tuba and clarinet players, who met through their involvement with the Harvard University Band, began dating after a year of friendship. Before embarking on a relationship, they talked about their goals in life and realized the many similarities. He proposed on the Weeks Footbridge a little more than three years after...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Kamber D. Vittori ’08 and Kenton J. Hetrick ’07 | 6/3/2008 | See Source »

MANY JAZZ EXPERTS CREDIT Bill Barber as creator of the modern jazz tuba. While playing "cool" Big Band music for Claude Thornhill, Barber impressed pioneering arranger Gil Evans with his mastery of the tuba, a background staple of early jazz bands that had become practically obsolete by the '30s. Convinced the instrument could be a tonal force in its own right, Evans included the tuba in his innovative arrangements for a nine-piece band--a body of work, featuring Barber, that became Miles Davis' legendary 1957 Birth of the Cool album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jul. 16, 2007 | 7/5/2007 | See Source »

...Your Bass Are Belong To Us: Exploring the Tuba Memorial Church...

Author: By The crimson arts staff | Title: ARTS FIRST CALENDAR | 5/2/2007 | See Source »

...Certainly the dream-boy was welcome in Slumberland, where King Morpheus and his princess daughter are most obliging, and where Nemo befriends the sassy Flip and a gibberish-speaking cannibal, the Imp. Often, though, the magic turned to menace, as when a tuba's tubing grows longer and more serpentine with every note puffed on it; or when Nemo, now in an urban setting, is pursued by apartment building on long metallic legs; or when he, Flip and Imp get lost in overgrown weeds - the eyebrow of Nemo's grandfather. In a strip that ran on New Year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Does Mad Need a Museum? | 2/3/2007 | See Source »

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