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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
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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
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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
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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
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