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.

When Maestro Daniel Oren chastised principal tuba player Avital Handler for chatting during a lull during a recent dress rehearsal for “Il Trovatore, at the Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv, she just grinned ...

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A special concert is celebrating the holiday season and the tuba. NewsHour's Tim McPhillips reports on the role of this versatile booming brass instrument in the music we all love. It wasn't the famed ...

New York - What do you call a woman carrying a tuba? A turtle, a tuba with legs, a woman with her house on. Those are some of the names Avital Handler hears when she walks the streets of New York with ...

The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival begins Friday, and music fans from all over the world will flock to the city's racetrack for seven days of music. A lot of things make New Orleans a one-of-a ...

Among brass instruments, the tuba is as big as you can go. But that didn't stop artisans in Germany from trying to make the big brother of the brass family even bigger. In 2010, 20 local artists from ...