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What Does a Rainbow Tuba Mean?

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Katherine Needleman
Aug 13, 2024
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Yesterday, I began to write about the 2024 Jeju International Brass Competition. This contest first came on my radar last year, and I covered its all-male repertoire and 28-man jury then. Yesterday, I touched on how the competition chose not to amplify any voices of women composers for tuba, but they did choose to amplify a composer, Mike Forbes, who “a…

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