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It goes down at these HBCU games! We just witnessed a brawl between Morgan State football players and Norfolk State band members just a few days ago, and here we go again as a Texas Southern Ocean of Soul tuba player rocked the soul out of a fan who effed around and found out. Assuming that the guy was a Jackson State fan, his trash talk didn’t go well for him whatsoever, and that’s an understatement. His team might have gotten the 21-19 dub to push them up to 7-3 on the season, and even did so in dramatic fashion...

Oklahoma State University has something unique to its band. Actually, two things. Sister station KOCO caught up with Georgia Milham and Mikaila Vaughn — two female tuba players who say they are the only two in the entire state and the Division-I collegiate level. "Don't let people tell you that you can't do something because you're a girl," Vaughn said. "Follow your dreams, do whatever you want." "Being different is a good thing," Milham said.

TUBACHRISTMAS was conceived in 1974 as a tribute to the late artist/teacher William J. Bell, born on Christmas Day, 1902. Through the legendary William J. Bell we reflect on our heritage and honor all great artists/teachers whose legacy has given us high performance standards, well structured pedagogy, professional integrity, personal values and a camaraderie envied by all other instrumentalists. The first TUBACHRISTMAS was conducted by the late Paul Lavalle in New York City's Rockefeller Center Ice Rink on Sunday, December 22, 1974. Traditional Christmas music performed at the first TUBACHRISTMAS was arranged by American composer Alec Wilder who ironically died...

When he was here recently leading the Philadelphia Orchestra, Simon Rattle was so smitten with a young substitute musician in the back row that he arranged to have her audition with his Berlin Philharmonic. Sir Simon, it turns out, was too late. The Philadelphia Orchestra has hired Carol Jantsch for its vacant tuba spot, making her the only - and possibly the first - female tuba player in a major full-time American orchestra. Jantsch won the orchestra's audition late Wednesday night, beating out 194 other hopefuls. Before she can break through the brass ceiling in the male-dominated realm of tuba-playing,...

WASHINGTON, May 20, 2005 – ABC's hit TV program "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" this weekend will feature the show's design team building and furnishing a new home for the family of a soldier killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom. The family of Army Pfc. Lori Piestewa, a soldier who died during the opening days of the Iraqi war, recently took ownership of a new $500,000 house north of Flagstaff, Ariz., that resulted from the effort. A team from the Extreme Makeover program designed the sprawling home and furnished it in a southwestern motif. A two-hour season finale, to air May 22,...