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After its success last year, the Brassworks Festival is returning to Woolwich. The musical street carnival home to street ...
Deb Kabler, a member of the all-volunteer VFW Band, plays taps on a bugle that belonged to her uncle. Kabler has played with ...
They've only brought a single piece with them tonight, but it's a big one. Mahler's Symphony No. 6 ... Throughout this work, you have streaks of the pastoral nature of Mahler. The horn calls, the ...
“Hunter coaxes multiple instruments out of his trombone—the purity of a trumpet… the intrinsic longing of a French horn… and even the blatt of a tuba. But that’s all ... he performs regularly with the ...
Tuba: too big. Trombone: too bizarre ... I eventually picked up the old Leblanc alto sax and played in the horn section of a nine-piece rhythm and blues band. I was also the lead singer.
It’s a big and ... like a tuba, or a marching band baritone, in that they’re held in front of the player, with the bell projecting upward. But Wagner invented them for French horn players ...
In our latest Sudbury.com Staff Tries video, reporter Jenny Lamothe gets to bang a drum, play the tuba, and say ‘amazing’ an ...
“Holy s---,” says a big UNLV tuba player, scrambling to put on the ... marched out against Tennessee State in Memphis, all the horn and woodwind players were holding brand-new instruments ...
The Sheldon Civic Music Association worked out a beneficial alliance to bring the upcoming ensemble in for the organization’s ...
The French Horn is reputed to be one of the most challenging brass instruments ... This in itself offers quite a big challenge for anyone wishing to play the instrument although the limited range of ...