IN MEMORIAM: John Butler & Paul Bierley
John Bulter 23 March 1932 to 25 February 2016 John Butler, Honorary Life Member and member of the Honorary Board of Directors of the ITEA,…
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LOOKING BACK: CONNIE’S FINAL TOOT!: An Interview with Constance Weldon
[Editor’s Note: This article is excerpted from the original as published in the Summer, 1991 edition of the TUBA Journal (Volume 18, No. 4). The original contains…
LOOKING BACK: Of Sousa and Circuses: An Interview with Johnny Evans
When I joined the Ringling Bros. Circus Band in 1948, I was in awe of the first tuba player Reuben Clinton Evans or Johnny as…
CELEBRATING R. WINSTON MORRIS AND THE TENNESSEE TECH TUBA ENSEMBLE: 50 Unprecedented Years
In mid-October, 2016 there was an historic celebration in Cookeville, Tennessee. As students of Charles Leonhard at the University of Illinois in the late 1970s…
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…
IN MEMORIAM: Carol Ann Phillips (1934-2017)
Carol Ann Phillips , 82, passed away on August 14, 2017. Born in Flushing, Queens, New York City to Alex and Anna Dorvel, November 2, 1934,…
LOOKING BACK
An Update on the TUBA Resource Library In 1975, TUBA established a Resource Library at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. J. Lesley Varner, the…
A BIOGRAPHICAL PORTRAIT OF J. LESLEY VARNER
Looking Back This month, we continue our discussion of the TUBA Resource Library with a portrait of its founder, J. Lesley Varner. Many thanks to…
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…
