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Jeff's Tuba Page

Recently, in anticipation of recording videos of the quintet, I made a little video of young Jasmine, the Pekingese, getting the newspaper. She does this every day even though we no longer subscribe to the newspaper. She doesn't seem to mind that every morning she brings the same paper as she did the day before and she doesn't seem to notice that when she brings me the paper I am reading the news on the internet. She has her own web page here and her video is on youtube:

Eventually, I got around to recording the quintet - some tunes we play at weddings as a demo - and the videos are now also on youtube. The recording was made in the beautiful and historic St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in St. Louis. This is where we recorded our Christmas CD several years ago and we also performed at the dedication ceremony for the new organ after the original had been destroyed in a fire caused by lightning.

3/25/08: The Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra (SLSO) today announced that a live performance of John Adams' Harmonielehre, performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Music Director David Robertson, is now the SLSO’s first recording to be distributed exclusively online. Harmonielehre is now available at various online music stores, including iTunes and Amazon.com, and is the first in a series of online releases to include live recordings of SLSO performances with Music Director David Robertson. More info on this historic release, sound clips and download available here: http://www.slso.org/adams/

Mike Sanders and Jeff at Carnegie Hall, rehearsing John Adams Harmonielere with the Saint Louis Symphony, March, 2007

Holiday Brass: Come Thou Long-Expected Jesus

Recorded at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, June & September 2005.

Trumpets: Tomas Drake, Joshua MacCluer, Stacy Simpson, Susan Slaughter, Mary Weber. Horns: Tod Bowermaster, Bruce Heim, Cheryl Hoard, Jennifer Montone, Amy Rhine. Trombones: Stephen Lange, Timothy Myers, Gerry Pagano, Marquita Reef, Stephen Parsons. Euphonium: Timothy Myers. Tuba: Jeffrey Hoard. Percussion: John Kasica, Kim Shelly. This is one of the most beautiful brass recordings I have ever heard. It was great fun to be part of it! A very few copies of the full CD still available here.

Brass Spectacular

Tuesday January 22, 2008, Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis. Featuring Susan Slaughter and the St. Louis Symphony Brass with members of the Missouri All-State Brass. The all-staters joined the Symphony Brass for Walton's Crown Imperial and Festival Procession by Strauss.

All the tuba players of this year's Missouri All-State Band and Orchestra were invited to perform with Mike and Jeff at this concert. The five brightest ones did and they are: __*__ ; William "Billy" Faber, Blue Springs South High School; Joe Presson, Lindbergh High School; Brogan Drissel, Webster Groves High School; Jon Speek, Fulton High School.

* (I'm sorry, I do not remember this gentleman's name. He was a very fine player though and deserves to be more than a *)

Hear Jeff play Roger Bobo Plays the Tuba by Brian Holmes, with the 

St. Louis Children's Choirs on the following CDs

Available Here

See the Video (Roger Bobo Plays the Tuba) (large file) The video is also now on YouTube but the quality is not as good as the one on this page.  ~ Smaller Clip from DVD Credits ~ A DVD of our performance at the American Choral Directors Association 2005 National Conference in Los Angeles is available here.

It has been a great experience to perform so often with the St Louis Children's Choirs. They are a superb group of talented young musicians under the loving and extremely competent leadership of their artistic Director, Barbara Berner and her amazing staff. They all preciously and respectfully called me Roger Bobo. I will never forget them.

Jeff Promotes Merry Tuba Christmas (with his tubabuddy,

Jon) in St. Louis. 

Jon never misses Tuba Christmas. Harvey should just give him a big hug! We lugged all our tubas down there, waited for about an hour and a half and got to play for a whole 20 seconds! If they ever ask us to do it again (curiously, they haven't yet) we're just gonna send 'em this video.

Watch The Video

Hear Jeff's Klezmer tuba stylings with Sandy Weltman

Available Here

You can also hear Jeff on this historically significant recording

featuring the epic poetry of Leo Connellan. Available Here

...and if you listen very, very carefully, you can even hear Jeff on this "R"-rated recording

with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Available Here

I was surprised to be asked to pose for the cover of this CD and agreed to shave my beard one last time for the photo shoot. It was a lot more fun than the clown shoot pictured farther down on this page. No makeup!

In 1993 there was a great flood in St. Louis. Everybody called it "The Great Flood." Some of the musicians I was hanging out with then wanted to get a band together to do some benefit concerts for some of the folks here who were displaced by The Great Flood. We called our group The Great Flood Band. I played electric tuba and wrote the material we performed. We actually stayed together a few years after The Great Flood and played a lot of gigs. One night at BB's, a jazz club down by the stadium, someone recorded us and it sounded like this:

How Long Till You Die? mp3

The group that night included Victoria Gough, vocal; Tom Byrne, guitar; Mike Carosello, keyboards;

Cheryl Hoard, horn; Jeff Hoard, electric tuba and Gari Perez, drums.

But even before that, there was:

It was Hong Kong. It was summer. It was hot. The heat does strange things to your head. Peter lived in a house way out in the New Territories. It took half the morning just to get there. I sat on the floor to play. I don't remember why we did it. It was summer. It was hot.

Early reaction to Tubabadd. Listen at your own risk!                                                   A young listener shares her thoughts on Tubabadd.

and way before that, even farther back than almost anyone remembers, was the Jaurez Octet:

Springtime Solitude mp3

I was 16 when we recorded this. Wayne Huber - he was the "pro" we hired for this session - he was in college! - and Tim Mcfarland, trumpets; Bob Bergstrom - he was 15, the wunderkid, trombone; Bob Cook, marimba; John Stienmetz - actually a talented bassoonist and composer, guitars; Pete Gago - I think he was 14. We had to sneak him out of his house to play gigs with us, drums; and a bass player we hired, didn't really know and never saw again. This was our 2nd recording. I produced it and added some overdubs as did Bob. We were lucky at that time to work with a sympathetic and very kind technician, Dick Terzian, who did his best to reign in and capture our youthful exuberance. 1966.

Some clowns get to play nice tubas.

Timmy writes another tuba concerto.

Timmy's compositions are neither better nor worse than those written by humans.

Hong Kong Philharmonic, 1991. Nice hall...

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