Students at The Walker School recently got a visit from internationally recognized tubist and author Dr. Richard Antoine White, also known as “R.A.W. Tuba.”
White spoke to students across all of Walker’s divisions, from three-year-olds to seniors preparing for college, sharing not just music but a deeply personal story of survival, perspective and possibility.
His journey, which is chronicled in his memoir “I’m Possible: A Story of Survival, a Tube and the Small Miracle of a Big Dream,” began far from concert halls and university lecture rooms. Born prematurely and weighing just over a pound, White survived early trauma and homelessness as a child. He remembers sleeping under trees and in abandoned houses, bathing at public water fountains and not knowing when his next meal would come. Eventually fostered and adopted, he discovered music — and with it, purpose…