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The Tuba Player by Josef Kinzel [], 1892. The tuba has been played since the mid-19th century, in the midst of the Romantic period of Western Classical music.Along with classical music, the instrument appears in a variety of jazz styles as well film and circus music.
Arnold Jacobs. Arnold Maurice Jacobs (June 11, 1915 – October 7, 1998) was an American tubist who spent most of his career with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He held that position from 1944 until his retirement in 1988. Jacobs was considered one of the foremost brass pedagogues of his time as well as an expert on breathing as it related to ...
It first appeared in the mid-19th century, making it one of the newer instruments in the modern orchestra and concert band, and largely replaced the ophicleide. [2] Tuba is Latin for "trumpet". [3] A person who plays the tuba is called a tubaist, a tubist, [4] or simply a tuba player.
Gene Pokorny (born May 15, 1953) is an American tubist. He has played with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra since his appointment by Georg Solti in 1988. [1] He has also played with the Israel Philharmonic, the Utah Symphony, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. [1] Pokorny has performed on several movie ...
March 8, 1985 (age 39) Ohio, U.S. Occupation (s) Musician, professor. Instrument. Tuba. Carolyn Mae "Carol" Jantsch (born on March 8, 1985) [1] is an American tuba player. She is the daughter of a medical doctor and a Kenyon College vocal-music teacher, Nancy Jantsch. [2] She began to study piano at age 6, and the euphonium at age 9.
Tuba. Years active. 1970–present. Musical artist. Conrad Charles Daellenbach C.M. (born July 12, 1945) is an American and Canadian [1] tubist. He is best known as one of the founding members of the Canadian Brass, in which he remains the quintet's tuba player, publisher, business administrator and professional relationships manager.
The sousaphone (/ ˈ s uː z ə f oʊ n / SOO-zə-fohn) is a brass musical instrument in the tuba family. Created around 1893 by J. W. Pepper at the direction of American bandleader John Philip Sousa (after whom the instrument was then named), it was designed to be easier to play than the concert tuba while standing or marching, as well as to carry the sound of the instrument above the heads ...
Oct. 10—Rats gnawed at Richard Antoine White's tiny body when he was a baby. He still bears the scars to prove it. As an infant, his alcoholic mother abandoned him in a warehouse. Today, he is ...