Rex Martin doesn’t like to toot his own horn, but he believes he’s got a whopper of a composition for his fellow tubists to huff and puff this Saturday. “I asked my friend Amnon Wolman to write something for tubas,” explains Martin, who, like Wolman, is a professor at Northwestern University. Wolman wrote Right Lane Must Turn Right, which is believed to be the first piece ever composed for several hundred tubas. It will be performed at the upcoming International Tuba/Euphonium Conference. More than 1,000 professional tubists from all over the world are expected to show up–750 of them will play Wolman’s composition while walking around Evanston. The stunt is sure to draw resounding attention to the bulkiest and what might be the loudest of all musical instruments.
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Wolman, who finds that tubists are “heartier, friendlier, and joke more” than most people, says, “Each group is responsible for its own action, yet together, unrehearsed, they can still make an emphatically irreverent statement.”
