OTR notes with both sadness and a smile the passing of Harvey Phillips. He loved the tuba, played it, composed for it, and conducted hundreds of tuba players in what became know as Tuba Christmas across the country. OTR was lucky to know about Tuba Christmas in Atlanta beginning in the late '80s, thanks to a colleague who happened to play one of the smaller versions of the instrument. For most of the next twenty Christmases, he and other co-workers found themselves enjoying the sound of three hundred tubas playing in the CNN Center and, later, on the terrace at Underground Atlanta.Last year, more than 250 cities celebrated Tuba Christmas. If you ever have the opportunity to attend, you will enjoy some beautiful music and leave with a renewed appreciation for the instrument. Just in case you can't make a concert, here's a taste of what you're missing:
Photo: Harvey Phillips, 1979, Archives Indiana University
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