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Pioneering Tuba Virtuoso Constance Weldon Dead At 88 by Artsjournal1

Believed to be the first woman to play tuba in a fully professional orchestra in the U.S., she was hired by the Boston Pops in 1955, after her second time at Tanglewood, and went on to hold positions in the North Carolina Symphony, the Netherlands Ballet Orchestra, and the Kansas City Philharmonic. (For a time, […]

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:42PM on September 8, 2020

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