Although stereotyped as the bass of a brass band, the tuba has a suprisingly broad technical and expressive range that is showcased in this concert for tuba and string quartet. “The brass instruments are the second most physical of all instruments,” the late tubist extraordinaire Harvey Phillips observed to broadcaster Bruce Duffie in a 1995 interview. Brass players are the only musicians other than singers who create sound with a part of the body, Phillips observed; “We simply substitute the lip for the vocal cord. When it says cantabile, that’s what we do — we sing.”

Experience firsthand the tuba’s singing quality in this concert of contemporary classical and classical-jazz fusion music held at Praxis Fiber Workshop, an intimate, multi-use arts space in the Collinwood neighborhood of Cleveland.