{"id":7939,"date":"2016-08-03T10:05:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-03T14:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/?p=7939"},"modified":"2026-03-31T20:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T00:53:09","slug":"velvet-brass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/velvet-brass\/","title":{"rendered":"Velvet &#038; Brass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Velvet Brown. She has been called the leading female tuba soloist in the world. We worked together recently on photos for an upcoming CD for her band, MOJATUBA. MOJA is an acronym for Modern Dance, Original Works, Jazz Styles, and African Influence. She describes it as jazz tuba with a big band feel. Our mood board was influenced by Ella Fitzgerald, and so is Velvet\u2019s music. Here are a few selections from Velvet\u2019s photo shoot.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0001.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tuba-Soloist-Velvet-Brown_0001.jpg\" alt=\"Black and White Profile Portrait of Velvet Brown with her Tuba\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0002.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tuba-Soloist-Velvet-Brown_0002.jpg\" alt=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0002.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nVelvet is a professor of tuba and euphonium at Pennsylvania State University. For more than twenty years, she has been spending part of her summers in New Hampshire to perform with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhmf.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Hampshire Music Festival<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0006.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tuba-Soloist-Velvet-Brown_0006.jpg\" alt=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0006.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0007.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tuba-Soloist-Velvet-Brown_0007.jpg\" alt=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0007.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0005.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tuba-Soloist-Velvet-Brown_0005.jpg\" alt=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0005.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0003.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tuba-Soloist-Velvet-Brown_0003.jpg\" alt=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0003.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0008.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tuba-Soloist-Velvet-Brown_0008.jpg\" alt=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0008.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0004.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Tuba-Soloist-Velvet-Brown_0004.jpg\" alt=\"Tuba Soloist Velvet Brown_0004.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nVelvet appeared in 2014 on this site with the <a href=\"http:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/the-stiletto-brass-quintet\/\">Stiletto Brass Quintet<\/a> for the cover of The Brass Herald.<br \/>\nMakeup: Amanda at the <a href=\"https:\/\/thecmaninnplymouth.com\/spa-salon-2\/\">The Common Man Spa &amp; Salon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Velvet Brown. She has been called the leading female tuba soloist in the world. We worked together recently on photos for an upcoming CD for her band, MOJATUBA. MOJA is an acronym for Modern Dance, Original Works, Jazz Styles, and African Influence. She describes it as jazz tuba with a big band feel.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"excerpt-more blog-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/velvet-brass\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[20,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headshots","category-portraits"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7939"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21541,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939\/revisions\/21541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maundymitchell.com\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}