Just a reminder that this time of year, and particularly during December, there will be many Tuba Christmas events around the country (world). Over 300 are already scheduled. See the Tuba Christmas web site (http://www.tubachristmas.com/index.html) to find an event near where you live and learn all about Tuba Christmas. Tuba Christmas is for all players of tubas/sousaphones and euphoniums/baritone horns. If you have never participated, try to make it this year. It is a lot of fun, great camaraderie, and audiences around the country love the performances.
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Tuba Christmas - Find One and Play!
John Morgan
The U.S. Army Band (Pershing's Own) 1971-1976
Adams E3 Custom Series Euphonium, 1956 B&H Imperial Euphonium,1973 F. E. Olds & Son Studio Model T-31 BaritoneAdams TB1 Tenor Trombone, Yamaha YBL-822G Bass Trombone
Year Round Except Summer:Kingdom of the Sun (KOS) Concert Band, Ocala, FL (Euphonium)Summer Only:
KOS Brass Quintet (Trombone, Euphonium)Rapid City Municipal Band, Rapid City, SD (Euphonium)
Rapid City New Horizons Band (Euphonium)Tags: None
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Will be doing my first one in Sacramento this year on the 14th. Observed one in Tombstone in 2013, I believe it was. Did a couple in Austin in the early 2000s, one of which was directed by Jukara Kano (I think I have his first name wrong). He got the first PhD in tuba performance awarded for at University of Texas. I had a few lessons from him when he ran the low brass studio at UT San Antonio and I played in a UT San Antonio Tuba Euph quartet where I used my YEP-642 and the other euphoniumist (a senior student) used his brand spanking new YEP-842. What a great musical experience and loved Tuba Christmas on the steps of the capitol at Austin. We played the great musical piece Coming Home from the New World Symphony. Kano is now running a low brass studio in a New England college.Arnold (Arnie) Williams
Sterling Virtuoso Euphonium with Gold Brass bell (Capitol Pops Band, Capitol Pops Tuba Euphonium Quartet)
Yamaha YBH-831S Neo Baritone Horn (Joyous Brass, First Baritone)
Yamaha YBH-301M Marching Baritone (Ophir Prison Marching Kazoo Band and Temperance Society LMTD)
Yamaha YEP-830 Xeno Bass Trombone (Sacramento Concert Band)
Euphonium: DW Heritage 4AL (main); K&G 3D (Ophir Prison Band)
Bass Trombone: Ferguson M Series Jeff Reynolds
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TubaChristmas was one of the things on my bucket list when I started playing last spring. I had no idea whether I’d be able to play well enough to participate. I’m now pretty active with a delightful community band, taking solid lessons, and striving to come up with a few new bucket list activities for 2020.
Although I wish I’d started in low brass 50 or so years ago, the rush that comes from mastering a tricky passage and getting it to sound as I want it to may have been dormant for a while, but darned if it isn’t back full force.TubaChristmas, here I come!
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Originally posted by highpitch View Post….I recommend taking the book to a copy outfit, and have it enlarged....John Morgan
The U.S. Army Band (Pershing's Own) 1971-1976
Adams E3 Custom Series Euphonium, 1956 B&H Imperial Euphonium,1973 F. E. Olds & Son Studio Model T-31 BaritoneAdams TB1 Tenor Trombone, Yamaha YBL-822G Bass Trombone
Year Round Except Summer:Kingdom of the Sun (KOS) Concert Band, Ocala, FL (Euphonium)Summer Only:
KOS Brass Quintet (Trombone, Euphonium)Rapid City Municipal Band, Rapid City, SD (Euphonium)
Rapid City New Horizons Band (Euphonium)
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I plan on being there. Tuba Christmas St Paul, Minnesota December the 8th!Last edited by John Lebens; 11-28-2019, 09:09 AM.Yamaha YEP 321 and Schilke 51D
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Buy the TubaChristmas and Tuba Company CDs as well.
I'm playing lead!
JimJim Williams N9EJR (love 10 meter CW)
Formerly Principal Euphonium in a whole
bunch of groups, now just a schlub.
Shires Q41, Yamaha 321, 621 Baritone
Wick 4AL, Wessex 4Y, or whatever I grab.
Conn 50H trombone, Blue P-bone
www.soundcloud.com/jweuph
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Make sure you have the new version of the books that I typeset and printed at
1200 dpi laser a few years ago--much easier to read than the older versions
with 6 generations of 9-pin dot-matrix print. The latest versions have a small
blurb about me in the front.
I redid both the large and small versions, as well as the version for treble clef
euphoniums.
JimLast edited by Snorlax; 11-28-2019, 05:01 PM.Jim Williams N9EJR (love 10 meter CW)
Formerly Principal Euphonium in a whole
bunch of groups, now just a schlub.
Shires Q41, Yamaha 321, 621 Baritone
Wick 4AL, Wessex 4Y, or whatever I grab.
Conn 50H trombone, Blue P-bone
www.soundcloud.com/jweuph
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I ordered the larger format book that Snorlax is referencing for this year (Carols for a Merry Tubachristmas). It's great. I'll be using it at the Sacramento gathering. Thanks, Jim, for you part in creating this much easier-to-read version.Arnold (Arnie) Williams
Sterling Virtuoso Euphonium with Gold Brass bell (Capitol Pops Band, Capitol Pops Tuba Euphonium Quartet)
Yamaha YBH-831S Neo Baritone Horn (Joyous Brass, First Baritone)
Yamaha YBH-301M Marching Baritone (Ophir Prison Marching Kazoo Band and Temperance Society LMTD)
Yamaha YEP-830 Xeno Bass Trombone (Sacramento Concert Band)
Euphonium: DW Heritage 4AL (main); K&G 3D (Ophir Prison Band)
Bass Trombone: Ferguson M Series Jeff Reynolds
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Rick Floyd
Miraphone 5050 - Warburton BJ / RF mpc
"Always play with a good tone, never louder than lovely, never softer than supported." - author unknown.
Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches
El Cumbanchero (Raphael Hernandez, arr. Naohiro Iwai)
The Cowboys (John Williams, arr. James Curnow)
Festive Overture (Dmitri Shostakovich)
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This one, in NYC, is probably the most well-known of any in the USA. Good video at the link below:
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/on-air/as...-rink/2242784/Dave Werden (ASCAP)
Euphonium Soloist, U.S. Coast Guard Band, retired
Adams Artist (Adams E3)
Alliance Mouthpiece DC3, Wick 4AL, Wick 4ABL
YouTube: dwerden
Facebook: davewerden
Twitter: davewerden
Instagram: davewerdeneuphonium
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Something a bit different for the Tuba Christmas this year in my town is we played in the lobby area of the auditorium an hour before The Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra Concert. We got 50% off the WSO Christmas Concert that followed Tuba Christmas and complimentary tickets for the next WSO here in February.
This year, I put 11 inch portable LED lights on my euphonium, wrapped it to the bell of my euph. and just scotch tape the wire part to the bell. The lights took 4 AA batteries. There's 6 light sequences to it. This a quick selfie that I did for the lights on my euphonium back in November.
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