Concerts by Travelling by Tuba

Concerts

School Concerts

Travelling by Tuba has designed three completely different award – winning shows, suitable for nursery, Keystages 1, 2 and 3. Each show stands independently, featuring whole different sets of instruments and covers areas of the National Curriculum in Music, History, Geography and Science.

Maximise the experience with additional Workshop sessions for smaller groups of children (up to 35). Choose from many different themes including Samba, Salsa, New Orleans Jazz, Spanish Tango or even Suzuki tone chimes. Each session climaxes with a performance by the children— no prior musical knowledge is needed. Take this idea further with a Performance Day, where each group performs a different piece in a concert for family and friends at the end of the school day.

These are cross curricular presentations suitable for nursery, Keystages 1, 2 and 3 covering areas of the National Curriculum in Music, Geography and Science. There is a strong emphasis on audience participation – a Travelling by Tuba trademark – throughout the performance and the musicians are adept at crowd control.

Travelling by Tuba I— The Original

Travelling by Tuba I – The Original, is an exciting presentation tracing the history of brass instruments featuring weird and exotic examples from all over the world.

Our journey begins with a Viking and his horn, an ancient aboriginal didjeridu and a Fijian conch shell.

Travel through time and hear music of the medieval courts played on a band of original fourteenth century instruments. Hear the postman’s posthorn played 400 years ago on the royal mail coach. Meet the first tuba, the weird and wonderful serpent. Watch as it grows valves and becomes the tuba as we know it today.

Discover how the tuba works as we assemble and play our amazing homemade hoseophones. Can you make them work? Cross the Atlantic and meet the swingin’ American cousin of the tuba, the sousaphone – straight from the heart of New Orleans. Finally, watch out for the exploding tuba!

Travelling by Tuba II— The Sequel

Travelling by Tuba II – The Sequel, features a completely different set of instruments from the four corners of the world.

Framed within a journey around the world, our show begins with the Egyptians and their ocarinas and the Chinese priests with their dragon-headed trumpets.

March with us down the Appian Way of Rome accompanied by the sight of the Roman cornu. Watch out for its blaring Turkish counterpart, the schnib.

A quick stopover in the Swiss Alps reveals the first mobile phone, a 1000-year-old 3.6 metre alpine horn. Next door, see how Salzburg’s most famous citizen, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart would have dressed 300 years ago. Our quietest moment features the South American panpipes. Find out how they work.

Hear our Orchestral Suite, showing how we think certain composers should have written for the tuba. See the tuba do the Can-Can and dance at the ballet!

Compare all this with the angular sounds of our contemporary train journey as we move to a rapturous finale in the world of rock and roll.

Travelling by Tuba III— The Return

In Travelling by Tuba III – The Return, Chris and Stewart present another completely different set of ancient, weird and exotic instruments from all over the world.

The show begins with two animal horns – a Bavarian shepherd with his gems horn and a Zulu warrior with his spiralling, warlike kudu horn.

Hear the orchestral cousins, the trumpet and trombone. How are they different? Be amazed by the big bass drum. Pretend to make some thunder and join in with our very own trumpet tune.

Travel to the Far East and see the two and a half metre high Tibetan Buddhist Dung encrusted in jewels to thank the Gods for their music. Watch out for Larry the Lama!

Imagine the tuba as the STAR of the opera. Meet the characters and see the action – the opera Carmen in four and a half minutes!

Our specially made valve machine shows clearly how the valve works. Then see the tuba’s valves put firmly to the test in a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov’s famous Flight of the Bumble Bee. Follow us as we head for the stars in our intergalactic finale.