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.

The annual Tuba Christmas concert on the steps of McMurran Hall brought holiday cheer and awareness, once again, to the unique attributes of the low registered members of the brass instrument family.

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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 ...

Melissa Cannan, coordinator, with a euphonium, and her niece, Morgen Fulmer, with a double-bell euphonium, wear buttons from their annual participation in Syracuse Tuba Christmas events. (Photo ...

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 ...

“You might think it looks more like a space heater than it does an instrument,” said brass maestro John Whitener, of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO). He’s describing the cimbasso – an ...