It’s not every day the tuba gets the spotlight—but in Barbara York’s Concerto for Tuba and Orchestra, it shines. Warm, lyrical, and unexpectedly graceful, this concerto reveals the tuba’s expressive ...

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 ...

Richard A. White, a classical tuba player, spent some of his earliest years living on the street in Baltimore, he told a crowd gathered Friday at the Boys & Girls Club of La Plata County. As a child ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carol Jantsch, principal tuba with the Philadelphia Orchestra, performs on The American Sound, 6pm Saturday and 7pm Tuesday, on Classical 101. Ask Carol Jantsch, principal tuba player with the ...