The Christmas season rang in Downtown Crossing with a distinctive low note or, rather, 100 such low notes as just as many regional brass instrument players assembled for Boston’s annual TubaChristmas.
A young man sits alone in a room, a tuba on his lap, and blows it hard, huffing and puffing to play Snedecor’s Low Étude for Tuba Number 4. It’s a head-rattling piece in a profoundly low register — ...
Joe Manio Local Journalism Initiative The sound of a tuba arrives like a broad, bronze wave—deep, round, and impossibly solid. It hums ...