Is the tuba the most underestimated instrument of all time? You might think so, after you hear how associate professor of music Yutaka Kono plays it. 

Kono is the director of orchestra at UVM, the artistic director of the Burlington Chamber Orchestra and the conductor of Vermont Youth Philharmonia of Vermont Youth Orchestra Association.

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