Theon Cross can still vividly remember when the instrument that’s taken him around the world was more of a liability than an asset. “Playing the tuba didn’t make me cool when I was at school,” the ...

Little drummer boys need not apply. Trumpets: Go sound somewhere else. French horns? Don’t even think about it. Only tubas and their kin can ride this train. At noon Monday, Steve Shoop will lug his ...

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Players of low brass instruments can usually be found sitting in the back row of an ensemble, keeping rhythm for the rest of the band and occasionally doubling the melodic lines of other sections. But ...