PROFILE: Mark Nelson on Teaching, Commissioning, and ITEA Involvement
Dr. Mark A. Nelson has been on the faculty of Pima Community College since the fall of 2000. He is the Chair of Performing…
Tag: ITEA History
IN MEMORIAM: Kelly Thomas & Herbert Fischbach
Remembering Kelly Thomas Well, this has not been a very good year and we are still in shock over the news about Kelly. I’m really…
LOOKING BACK: Finding Articles on Our History
Have you ever been in a band room and wondered, “Why doesn’t someone clean this place?” As band directors purchase music and catalogs arrive in…
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
March 17, 2019 Mr. Benjamin Pierce, Editor ITEA Journal Dear Mr. Pierce: In the tribute to Les Varner in the Winter 2019 Journal, there is…
LOOKING BACK: Biographical Profile: John M. Kuhn – Red Cloud
John M. Kuhn (Red Cloud) was an outstanding tubist active in the early to mid-20th century. In Mr. Tuba, Harvey Phillips described Kuhn as “a highly respected Sioux…
LOOKING BACK: ITEA Lifetime Achievement Profile: Rich Matteson (1929-1993) By Ken Drobnak
When I first approached Don Little about reprinting his interview with Rich Matteson from 1977, he noted, “Almost an entire generation of players have grown…
LOOKING BACK: The History and Vision of TUBA in the 1960s, Part III (Ken Drobnak, ITEA Historian)
This is the final column to print letters from the first Newsletter of TUBA from 1968. Mr. Rÿker wrote, “The Midwest National Band and Orchestra…
LOOKING BACK: A History of the Tuba-Euphonium Press by Ken Drobnak, ITEA Historian
There was a time in the not-so-distant past that finding original and transcribed music for tuba or euphonium was a challenge, if not nearly…
