Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. The tuba is the lowest and biggest brass instrument. It has four or five ...

But you may be surprised by the sounds these lowest of the low brass instruments can produce. “Many think of [tubas] being just ‘oom-pah-pah,’” says Karl Hovey, co-coordinator of the Old ...

The tuba soloist, William Nakamura, did a fine job making the tuba, that elephant of the orchestra, sound beautiful and ...