UTC Tuba Ensemble and Tuba-Christmas at Northgate Mall

Fifty local musicians and the UTC Tuba-Euphoniium Ensemble will
perform a program of mass tuba music at Northgate Mall, December 6th
at 1:00. The massed performance will be preceded by a short concert
by the UTC Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble playing works of Beethoven,
Handel, Byrd, Sousa, and others. The group will be under the baton of
William R. Lee, Professor of Music at the University of Tennessee at
Chattanooga. The event is sponsored by the Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble of
the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Northgate Mall, and the
Harvey Phillips Foundation.

The Tuba-christmas concert at Northgate Mall is one of more than 300
being held across the United States, Europe, Japan, and Australia.
The concerts feature local tubists and euphoniumists--from middle
school to professionals--in public performance of Christmas carols
and mass tuba pieces especially arranged for the event.
Tuba-christmasses have been held since 1974. This is the thirtieth
year, and the thirteenth year in Chattanooga.

Tuba-christmas concerts were first conceived to pay tribute to the
memory of William J. Bell, born Christmas Day 1902, one of the
world's greatest tubists. The concerts were the brainchild of Harvey
Phillips, Distinguished Professor of Music at Indiana University.
Phillips conducts the annual tub- christmas concert at Rockefeller
Center in New York which involves 500 tuba and euphonium players and
a crowd of 30,000 people and is covered by national TV.

Dr. Lee is Professor of Music and Coordinator of Music Education at
UTC.  A specialist in the teaching of music teachers, he has
published music for wind instruments and is a researcher in the field
of music education. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of
Research in Music Education and has published in most periodicals in
his field. More recently he has published tuba and euphonium works
with Tuba Press, Inc. and with Cimmaron Press, Inc.

Tuba at UTC are taught by Dr. Kenyon Wilson, Adjunct Associate
Professor, who performs with the Chattanooga Symphony and is
principal tubaist with the Augusta (Georgia) Symphony.

Questions about the performance should be directed to Dr. Lee via email.