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(Sorry if this is a double post...I can't find it, if it actually was posted earlier. Maybe I goofed??)

A co-worker, it turns out, was at Michigan in the mid-60s. He can't remember, and I don't know, who the tuba instructor was at the time. Trombone and euphonium also.

Who was doing low brass before Mr T and Henry Charles Smith? For that matter,going back to immediate post-War, who was there?

thanks!

It's my understanding that no one taught tuba and euphonium full-time anywhere before Rex Conner started at Kentucky in 1960. So it was probably one or more adjuncts, I would guess.

talleyrand wrote:It's my understanding that no one taught tuba and euphonium full-time anywhere before Rex Conner started at Kentucky in 1960.

Seems to me the OP asked who was teaching low brass at UM in the early-mid '60s, not if he/she/they was/were full-time instructors.

And, for the record, Alfred James Phasey was appointed as Professor of Euphonium and Baritone at Kneller Hall, Royal Military School of Music, London, in 1859.

eupher61 wrote:Who was doing low brass before Mr T and Henry Charles Smith? For that matter,going back to immediate post-War, who was there?

William Revelli was dir. of bands at UM from 1935-1971 and chairman of the Instrumental Winds Dep't from the late '50s on, so he's a possibility. I know he taught chamber music ensembles throughout his tenure, but don't know whether or not he taught specifically low brass (but would not be at all if he did), though.

Seems to me tuba and euphonium is different from euph & baritone

I wouldn't be surprised at anything Revelli did. I had him twice at the band clinic at Morehead State U in the early 80s. Very able, and quite an experience for high school kids.

I know it wasn't The Chief. And, I doubt it was a full-time, dedicated tuba or euph person. Most likely, a low brass teacher, maybe a full timer and grad students, but someone would have been the teacher of the grad students. I know it was not Revelli.

Doesn't it make sense that the trombone teacher was probably tasked with the teaching of ALL the low brass prior to Mr. Torchinsky's appointment? Would that have been Dennis Smith?

Chuck"not sure that is the right name, but believes his premise is solid"Jackson

My undergrad teacher at Southern Mississippi, Ray Young, was the favorite euphonium player of Mr. Revelli for many years. Revelli did not teach private lessons, he was probably too busy being Revelli.

Ray studied with the trombone teacher (sorry, don't have the name). This would have been in the early 1960's and was true until after I graduated. I asked about going to Michigan for grad school and Ray said to go somewhere with a tuba teacher.