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Big changes often start with small steps, as recent events have shown us. At Boston University Tuesday night, one of those changes may have begun with a symphony orchestra, a composer and a new ...

Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky conducted the world premiere of his own Symphony No. 6, the “Pathétique,” on Oct. 28, 1893. A little more than a week later, on Nov. 6, he was dead at 53, in circumstances ...

Everybody knows the tuba — the big, loud brass instrument at the back of the orchestra or the band, issuing the occasional oom-pah and playing long tones underneath all the other brass. But the tuba ...

Imagine how the London Symphony Orchestra’s directors felt when they asked Ralph Vaughan Williams, dean of English composers, to contribute a new piece for the orchestra’s golden jubilee in 1954 – and ...

Aaron Tindall (DMA tuba student) won the concerto competition at the Aspen Music Festival and performed R. Vaughn-Williams’ Concerto for Bass Tuba July 28th in the Benedict Music Tent at the Aspen ...

And we close the hour with none other than a concerto for the lowest member of the brass family, the tuba. Aubrey Foard is the soloist with the orchestra at this summer's Music Academy of the West.

I refer to the item you carried last Sunday on the forthcoming performance of Gregson's Tuba Concerto by Paul Borg, accompanied by the Sliema Band. For the record, it should be pointed out that there ...

A musician from P.E.I. is included on CBC Music's classical "30 under 30" list for the first time. While it's not the first time tuba player Olive MacPhail has been featured at a national level, ...