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I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World
Elizabeth Eshelman grew up in a family of tuba players and staged her grand rebellion by majoring in English instead of music. It was too late, though; by college, she’d already been playing the tuba for six years, and now, several years out from an MFA in fiction, she’s at work on a novel about love, vocation, the meaning of life, and—the tuba world. She can’t help it. It’s genetic.
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August 29, 2014I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: You Tuba Players Can’t Deny
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August 7, 2014I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: Ode to My Tuba
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July 22, 2014I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: Enough Tuba Talk—Let’s Listen
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July 3, 2014I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: Real Men Bring Their Own Shade
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May 27, 2014I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: Bellows of Discontent: The Art of the Orchestral Excerpt
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April 30, 2014I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: Theme and Variations on the 2014 North American Brass Band Association Competition
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March 25, 2014I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: Riding the Air Stream
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March 4, 2014I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: Glamour, Tuba-Style
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February 11, 2014I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: Principles of the Species
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January 17, 2014I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: A Whole Universe of Music
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December 6, 2013I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: Poets of the Band
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November 13, 2013I Like Big Brass and I Cannot Lie: Confessions from the Tuba World: How the Tubas Stole Christmas
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