Word: tubas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from twelve to 14 viola players, from ten to twelve cellists, from eight to twelve contrabassists., It must have one piccolo player, two flutists, two oboists, an English-horn player, two clarinetists, a bass clarinetist, two bassoonists, a contrabassoonist, four or five horn players, three trumpeters, three trombonists, a tuba player, a kettledrummer, and a harpist. Each of these musical specialists is indispensable to the proper functioning of the mechanism. A symphony orchestra without a kettledrummer, for instance, is about as helpless as a car without a carburetor...
Last week the No. 1 scandal in U. S. colleges was weightedly denounced. Walter Albert Jessup, president of the Carnegie Foundation, made this collegiate blackbirding the leading theme of his annual report. Dr. Jessup was astonished to discover that "drum majors and tuba players now find themselves possessed of special talents with a marketable value in the college field," that a college representative arriving at a high school learned he was the 83rd scout who had visited it that year. "In bidding for favor," scolded Dr. Jessup, "we are streamlining the job-our current models glitter with gadgets that smack...
...Tuba: Robert D. Forsberg...
...bassoonist who owns an instrument, and for viola players. Considerable versatility is noted among the players; the head of last year's viola section will be transfered to oboe this year, a horn player has shifted to trumpet, and one man volunteered to play either the flute or the tuba...
...Princeton, where he graduated in 1909. One day when he was a student at the University of Pennsylvania Law School he tried to get into a football game free by offering to play any instrument in the band which lacked a player. He was handed an E-flat tuba with the music for Hail Pennsylvania in another key, and transposed it by reading the bass clef as the treble and subtracting the proper number of flats, later working out an explanatory equation. Today Lawyer Scott plays the French horn in the Germantown Symphony Orchestra, owns a 16th Century cello that...