Learning to play a musical instrument requires learning at least three distinct languages. One day in sixth grade I was informed by the band director that I would henceforth be playing a tuba. (Later ...

For two and a half years, Brainerd High School senior Andrea Miller played a light, soft flute. Then she tried the opposite end of the instrument pool and fell in love with a large, loud tuba. Today ...

Six months in, Ember Evans was not exactly blowing people away with her trumpet playing. “Not so great,” she admitted. So her teacher suggested a change. “She handed me a tuba.” That was in sixth ...

Arriving for a Christmas concert at a gracious old church, audience members might be expected to bring a little reverence. But grins, guffaws and a few giggles met the first bars of "Deck the Halls" ...