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, ...

Hope all of you in the States enjoyed your Thanksgiving. We took some time off to enjoy ours, so this week, we’re giving you old gold. Øystein was recently in Houston, and because our stars didn’t ...

In I’m Possible (Flatiron, Oct.), White recalls his rise from homelessness to becoming principal tubist of the New Mexico Philharmonic. What drew you to classical tuba? I went to high school with ...

Exactly why this set, recorded in Sydney in 2003, has waited so long for a commercial release is a bit of a puzzle. These are fabulous performances in every sense. The playing is so vibrant, so alive ...

The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. In Grade 9, ...

From WSHU's daytime and evening classical programs, Emily Boyer and Lauren Rico give you a heads-up on some of the best music they'll be sharing with you.

The piece set to music the tale from Ovid in which Jupiter woos Europa in the guise a bull (pictured below: The Abduction of Europa by Jean-François de Troy, 1716). Complex? Yes. Picturesque? Not ...

Finishing his 39th season with the Houston Symphony, David Kirk has heard all the tuba jokes. He doesn’t mind. “If people say ‘oom-pah, oom-pah’ when they see me, that’s OK, because that’s a huge part ...

Robin Holloway’s tuba concerto gave expressive voice to an orchestral underdog, while the RLPO sounded thrilling under an empathic Manze Robin Holloway has pursued an equal-opportunities approach to ...

Don Butterfield, a tuba player whose virtuosity helped to popularize the use of his instrument in jazz, died Nov. 27 in Cedar Grove, N.J. He was 83 and lived in Clifton, N.J.A classically trained ...