“The Tuba Thieves” director Alison O’Daniel took inspiration for her feature film from a series of tuba thefts from local LA high schools that she heard about on the radio. But instead of ...

The captions that appear throughout “The Tuba Thieves” are generous, imaginative, and expansive, giving names to sounds we’re familiar with but have likely never thought to put into words. The sound ...

Filmmaker Alison O'Daniel departs from a series of robberies, in which instruments were stolen from Los Angeles schools in the early 2010s, to provide an unconventionally audiovisual experience. The ...

Joe Manio Local Journalism Initiative The sound of a tuba arrives like a broad, bronze wave—deep, round, and impossibly solid. It hums ...