Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble to perform at Renaissance Center

Release Date: 4/15/2004. Expired: 5/1/2004

Since 1967, the Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble (TTTE) has performed around the world and established itself as the “pioneer” ensemble of its kind.

The TTTE brings its unique sound to the Performance Hall of The Renaissance Center for a special one-night concert at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 1. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for seniors and children under 13. Students participating in The Renaissance Center Concert and Jazz Band Festival that weekend will receive one complimentary ticket.

“The Tennessee Tech Tuba Ensemble first brought to life the idea of a large tuba and euphonium choir when it was organized by R. Winston Morris in 1967,” said Elaine Sherrill, senior director of Music at The Renaissance Center and a TTU alumnus. “The group’s reputation and performances have inspired outstanding composers across the globe to create music specifically for the ensemble.”

Music generated by and for the TTTE has been performed in Japan, Australia, Canada, all over Western Europe and throughout the United States. It has performed for audiences from Carnegie Hall in New York to Jackson Square in New Orleans, receiving the highest accolades from the professional world of tubists and euphoniumists, music educators and professional reviewers.

Organized in 1967 by Morris, the TTTE was the birth of a new concept in music for multiple tubas. Prior to that, chamber music for tubas was very limited and, needless to say, there was a total lack of literature for such an ensemble. Morris launched a search for music that has led to the composition of more than 600 works specifically for the TTTE.

The TTTE is the first and only tuba ensemble to present full performances at Carnegie Recital Hall and has performed six concerts there (1976, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1995 and 2003).

The ensemble has appeared at regional and national Music Educators National Conference workshops; regional, national and international Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association workshops; the New Orleans Jazz Festival, Preservation Hall and Mardi Gras Parades; the 1984 International Brass Congress; Disney World; The Kennedy Center and the Smithsonian Institute; the Spoleto Festival; and world’s fairs in Knoxville and New Orleans.

The TTTE became the first ensemble of its kind to release a commercially produced album in 1975, the first of 13 recordings featuring the TTTE, making it the most recorded tuba group in the world.

“Performances, commissioning programs, participation in regional, national and international workshops and conferences, and recordings by the TTTE have expanded opportunities for the tubists and euphoniumists and provided the music world with a new and exciting sound,” said Morris.

“We are very excited to bring this ground-breaking ensemble to The Renaissance Center and especially proud to present the opportunity to enjoy this group in person to the many school band members who will be participating in our band festival that weekend,” said Sherrill.

To purchase tickets for the concert, call (615)740-5600.

The Renaissance Center is an arts and technology education and performing arts center at 855 Highway 46 South in Dickson, just 35 miles west of Nashville on Interstate 40 at exit 172.

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