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The United States Marine Band is offering some of their recordings free on the web. One of those is available for you to download from TubaEuph.com here:



U.S. Marine Band - Gimenez: Intermezzo from La Boda de Luis Alonso



You can browse other Marine Band recordings on their web site at http://www.marineband.usmc.mil/

There is now a site with a weekly podcast of brass band music. For those who do not know, a podcast is a downloadable music file (MP3 in this case) that can automatically be downloaded to your RSS reader whenever it is updated. You can learn more about RSS readers on our News Page.



Or check out The Brass Band Podcast Site

There are 3 new posts in the Tuba Sightings category on the forum (which talks about tubas seen in movies or on TV). Check them out and add more if you know of any:



Tuba Sightings in Movies and TV

There are two new items listed on the Euphonium CD page.



The first is by euphoniumist Pat Stuckemeyer, who offers a really nice variety of music on his CD called Just for Fun. There is good blend of original euphonium music, transcriptions, and an original duet for euphonium and trumpet (originally written for Brian Bowman and his brother).



The second entry is an album by Gerard Schwarz (yes, the trumpet player) called Turn of the Century Cornet ...

There is a great new tuba recording listed on the Tuba CD page. It features tubist James Gourlay and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia on the album British Tuba Concertos.