GOLDWORKS JEWELRY DESIGN 5TUDIU 431 W 13th. #2. Eugene 343-2298 PeguK* Busmew Horn turn fn 9orrv Spm 2p*v«jm So* !0am4pm Wgaa ' *ngt ana meet' *t*o«3!*r* ^ storm patagonia* Stay warm, Stay ojisde Hu- Svnchilln Snap-1 is a Patagonia staple Original (11-oz tSsnchilla pile is ,in excellent insulation las er it's exceedingly w arm tor its weight, and it's quick to dry. Modified Y-Jowt sleeves kei*p the waist down when your amts go up Nylon Lycra* trim at the cuffs and hem dries quickly I vtTit t» 4 njgMAmd IHjpm! t ASfc> SH* AMAS C I*4t4iciwu h* m2 MCKENZIE OUTFITTERS 79 W. Broadway • 485-5946 Valley River Center ■ 348-2300 p u Don't get *mailed' this holiday season. Come and experience a festival of fantastic and unique handcrafted gifts and live music. Wednesday & Thursday December J.st and 2nd 10:00am - 5:30pm EMU Fir Room U of O campus info @ 346-4361 Sponsored by the EMU Craft Center A the Cultural Forum IQ Nothing stops tuba musicians Can !ree*mg cold, ram or hail stop a band o( 200 tuba players from belting out Christmas carols? "No matter what the weather is. we're going to play." said John Huenmk, president of the Oregon Tuba Association Although nearly halt of the con certs have been plagued by diffi cult weather conditions, Huenink said that nothing will stop the annual T ubaCarolConcert sched uled for Dec 11 at 1 p.m. on the Eugene Mail Each year the event draws about 200 tuba play ers of all ages, sizes and shapes and more than 1.400 eager lis teners One year, faced with the prospect of dreadful weather. Huenink said the association decided at 11 30 a m to forego changing the concert location. At 1? 59. the weather was mild and lair “Then at 1 00. when the direc tor’s downbeat started, the skies opened, and wo had a horren dous downpour ot stiff rain - it was almost hail - and we kept playing.” Huenink said "People thought we were crazy " Yet a deep love (or their instru ments and the music they create keeps the players' lips pressed against their mouthpieces through all kinds of weather “As children, most ol us learned ... that you don't stick your tongue to a doorknob or a frozen flagpole," Huenink said, “and here we get older and wiser and sit there with 30 to 50 pounds ot (rozen brass in our laps, and we voluntarily stick our lips on it." Despite the sometimes trying conditions. Huenink said that the TubaCarolConcert. the "annual low-blow to the citizens of Eugene." is a tun. "all-comers" event whose primary purpose is to get people together to come and play rich traditional holiday music in low-brass harmony Having had participants ot all skill levels and ages ranging from seven to 80, Huenink welcomes and encourages anyone who plays a tuba instrument - like a sousaphone. euphonium, bari tone - to |0in and play in the 15th annual concert The Oregon Tuba Association and Downtown Eugene Inc , joint sponsors of the event, send out thousands ot llyers each year to people in Oregon and its neigh boring states to draw the 200 par ticipants, making it one of the HCfc HHOIt Musicians assemble with thalr Instrumants for thalr annual TubaCarolConcart largest tuDa concerxs m me nation. Because ol the strength and resonance of the tuba notes. Huenink said that the TubaCarol Concert’s audience always extends past the borders of the Downtown Mall. People have approached Huenink to tell him that they’ve never seen the concert but have heard it blocks and blocks away because the sound seems to “reverberate across the canyon." Even people who are pro foundly deaf and seriously visual ly handicapped have been known to enjoy the concert, he says. The instruments are "big and bright and shiny, and even if they can't see us. they feel us.M One of the concert's highlights occurs as the tubas play "Jingle Jingle.” an up-tempo version of Jingle Bells. According to tradition. Huenink said that “people reach into their coais anu pun uui ueus ur Man shaking their keys." To have 1,500 people jingling bells and 200 tubas playing is just awe inspiring, he said. The concert program features music from "Carols for Low Brass," which are arrangements of traditional hymns like “Deck the Halls," "Joy to the World" and "Silent Night" done by a former University student, David Grasvenor. Huenink is also a pastor of the Peace Presbyterian Church and co-founder of the TubaEnsemble, the core of the Oregon Tuba Organization. It is a group of a dozen tuba players who perform once a month for rest homes, races and other events. Huenink said that afthough "we come from a variety of back grounds and political persuasions Turn to TUBAS. Page I3B S tsr\-1 slims ( .;// s : v. >.*s*e*-*»* : Un the eve of QwJtn \ iciona's becoming Einprc» «>l India, she received as a gilt from the Maharaja ol kapurthala a solid gold Bubbler. C\jr royal replica is handmade in solid silverplaied hravs by the descendants ol the Maharaja's goldsmiths Enjoy the splendour ol the Raj with this lun piece ol usual jewelry Thrjlovil Bubbler $11 .VS WS fa Heirloom quality muwcal ornaments are ineticulini9.lv hand-made by priitesMon.il instrument makers in a violin factory. 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