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Late greats of the tuba
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:42 pm
by GC
Who do you consider to be the late greats of the tuba? I'd start with:
August Helleberg
Fred Geib
Bill Bell
Arnold Jacobs
Tommy Johnson
Please be careful not to add names of the non-departed.
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:44 pm
by ASTuba
John Fletcher has to be on there.
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:57 pm
by djwesp
Ionel Dimitru or however you spell it.
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:36 pm
by Ed Jones
That's Ionel Dimitru an yes, he was a great one. Add Joe Tarto, Johnny Richardson and my personal favorite Everett Gilmore. I'm sure I will think of more with a good night's sleep.
Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 11:54 pm
by chipster55
Ditto for Mr. Gilmore - a truly nice human being and a great tuba player.
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:34 am
by brianf
You have to start with this list, those who have recieved ITEA's highest award:
Lifetime Achievement Members
Tuba
William Bell
Roger Bobo
John H. Butler
Don Butterfield
Philip Catelinet
Rex Conner
Ionel Dumitru
John Fletcher
Vaclav Hoza
Arnold Jacobs
Tommy Johnson
David Kuehn
Michael Lind
R. Winston Morris
Dan Perantoni
Harvey Phillips
Zdzislaw Piernik
Chester Roberts
Robert Ryker
Kurahei Sato
Jim Self
Henry Charles Smith III
Donald Stanley
Lászlo Szábo
Vilmos Szábo
Abe Torchinsky
Robert Tucci
Constance (Connie) Weldon
Raymond Young
Euphonium
Brian L. Bowman
Leonard Falcone
Arthur Lehman
Earle Louder
Rich Matteson
Manufacturers
Peter Hirsbrunner
Willy Kurath
Anton Meinl
Composers
Walter Hartley
Alexi Lebedev
Alec Wilder
John Williams
Sorry the links did not come through to get to their biographies, this came from
http://www.windsongpress.com/brass%20pl ... layers.htm
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:55 am
by djwesp
Ed Jones wrote:That's Ionel Dimitru an yes, he was a great one. Add Joe Tarto, Johnny Richardson and my personal favorite Everett Gilmore. I'm sure I will think of more with a good night's sleep.
Well it is...
Ionel Dumitru
But you were a heck of a lot closer than I was.
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 6:24 am
by Jeffrey Hicks
Fred Marzan...
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:24 am
by Richard Murrow
Ditto on those listed. My personal favorite, John Fletcher!
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:30 pm
by Dylan King
From Los Angeles I have to mention Red Calender and John Swain. Two very kind gentleman who were so quietly important to tubists everywhere.
Late Great John Kuhn
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:08 pm
by AndyL
John "the Chief" Kuhn should make the list as an "early great".
He played with Sousa and Isham Jones.
Anybody know what became of him after that?
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:03 pm
by windshieldbug
Philip Donatelli, tubist for the Philadelphia Orchestra, for whom the CSO Yorks were made.
Simone Mantia, euphonium soloist extraordinaire.
Late, Greats of the Tuba
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:23 pm
by Stephen Shoop
I understand that August Helleberg, Jr. and John Helleberg (August Helleberg's sons) were also excellent players in their own right.
Late, great tuba players
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:25 pm
by Stephen Shoop
Harvey Phillips speaks very highly of Johnny Evans-- fellow tuba player in the Barnum and Bailey Circus Band.
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 3:30 pm
by windshieldbug
Student of Bill Bell, and my teacher, Irving H. Cohen.
Trust me, if Irv could teach me, then he could teach anybody. And it may not mean much to anyone else, but I sure miss him.
Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 10:47 pm
by eupher61
you beat me to it...Singleton Palmer, what a helluva player. Incredibly nice man too, a great friend for a brief period.
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 11:51 pm
by tubafatness
He may not be known to that many people, but a "late great" to me is Dr. John Hubbard. He passed about a year and a half ago, and he has left a huge impact on me. He also had the distinction of being a good friend of Ed Kleinhammer, as well as an acquaintance of Arnold Jacobs. As Dr. Hubbard put it, "I am the only person who did not get a lesson from Jake in the time that I knew him!" He was a great bass trombonist, but his real-life job was as a neurosurgeon. As his friend Dr. Griffith told it, him and Dr. Hubbard got drunk one night in college and decided to become brain surgeons! Before that, he was a music major, playing trombone and piano. One of the lasting lessons I got from him was in my first lesson, where he said, "Without a doubt, the hardest song you'll ever have to play is 'O Isis and Osiris.'" And, he was right! In his last couple of months, he started to get rid of a bunch of the stuff that he had accumulated over the years, including a wall of records, six full file-cabinets of music, and a mountain of CD's. He gave me an old Conn tuba he had, a 4J, which I plan to hold on to for a long, long time. All in all, he was one of the biggest influences on me, and I hold him in high regard along with all of the others who have come before.
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:44 am
by Tubanese
Please don't forget:
Mike Roylance
Sam Pilafian
Pat Sheridan
Gary Ofenloch
Toby Hanks(Great teacher!)
Ken Amis
etc....
A couple more
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 12:29 pm
by jeopardymaster
The list isn't complete without Sam Green and Phil Catelinet.
Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:22 pm
by iiipopes
Tubanese wrote:Please don't forget:
Mike Roylance
Sam Pilafian
Pat Sheridan
Gary Ofenloch
Toby Hanks(Great teacher!)
Ken Amis
etc....
How many of them are "late?"