Word: tubas
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Over the decades, despite blasts from Negro groups objecting to the social caricatures, Southerners Gosden and Correll have stuck to their basic plot line, regularly got tuba-voiced Andy (Correll) into wild misadventures, sent earnest, gravel-throated Amos (Gosden) to his aid, and flavored the episodes with the genial con-manship of The Kingfish (Gosden...
...Dartmouth invaders finally capitulated, and as the band re-formed to play "Fair Harvard," about fifteen men of the Big Green salaamed towards the Crimson stands as a sign of surrender. Despite dented instruments and a tuba broken in half, the band blared fourth with its vigor undiminished...
...orchestra is working on Roll Out the Barrel; a second concerto, written by Mozart's father Leopold for alpenhorn and played on two lengths of garden hose by Britain's distinguished Hornist Dennis Brain; a set of variations for wheezy winds, featuring Hoffnung himself playing a tuba so big that it runs on wheels and requires built-in bellows to supply enough wind...
...special category belongs to Walt Disney, whose film cartoons are the source of record material for almost every company in the field. In addition, there are a few classics that turn up repeatedly, e.g., Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and George Kleinsinger's Tubby the Tuba...
...vaudeville conductor, Legrand was packed off to the Paris Conservatory at ten. There he studied to become a serious composer, took to accompanying and arranging for popular singers to help pay his way. As the demand for his arranging talents grew, he formed his own combo (tuba, banjo, drums and piano), which he expands to a full orchestra as the need arises. He scored his first big recording success in 1954, when Columbia commissioned him to arrange and do an orchestral recording of an album of schmalzy favorites to be issued under the title I Love Paris...