- Tubas include Sousaphone, B Flat Baritone
Horn (my instrument), Euphonium).
- Each Christmas there are over 150
celebrations called TubaChristmaas, held in public places, e.g., at a Malls.
I have participated.
- Many of the players are actually Trumpet
players who are able to play the Baritone Horn (same treble
fingering)
- There are many organized Tuba groups that
might be called upon to play at PD sponsored Tuba happenings, ad hoc,
and promoted by local PD Support Groups. I could research the names of
key Tuba groups, and supporters, e.g., the Band directors Association of
America; "The Big Red" have 100 marching Sousaphones.
- Venue: Malls, front steps of state capitals,
also county seat, Rocky Balboa's front steps at the Philadelphia Museum of
Art.
- Chris Browne, cartoonist, Horrible Hagar, had
a strip. as follows: Hagar to Lucky
- Eddie, "It's a tough world out
there." "You have to blow your own horn!" Eddie,
responds, "What if you're not musically inclined?"
- Why Tuba? There is a tradition,
structures are in place, the ultimate is the 500 plus Rockefeller
Center Christmas Tubas.
- Joshua blew the trumpets, marched
around the city, and the walls came tumbling down.
- Finally Tubas attract attention, have a great
soiled sound which many people have never heard, especially as played by a
virtuoso of the instrument,
- When in the year? Music? Songs
off Americana, or songs of hope..
Responses invited Thank
you
