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 ...

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.

On the first TubaChristmas, around 300 musicians showed up at the ice skating rink at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, bearing their giant brass instruments. A massive, all-tuba holiday concert was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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You might not know Sam Pilafian by name, but you've probably heard his tuba. Whether it was on Pink Floyd's "The Wall" or he was playing while doing a headstand — a move that gave him the nickname ...