Felix Swing Band at the Troy Music Hall

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Troy, NY — The free Music at Noon series at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall continues with the Felix Swing Band on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 at noon. The program is called “A Tribute to Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw.” Felix Endico, leader and pianist for the Felix Swing Band, has been an organizer of bands since his college years at Lehigh University and has played with the great jazz organists, including Wild Bill Davis, Jack McDuff, and with the bandleader Erskine Hawkins. He has always been inspired by the "Harlem" stride piano style of Wille the Lion Smith, and the South Side Chicago piano styles of Jess Stacey and Earl Hines. Endico interprets his music as an arranger and is highly influenced by Fletcher Henderson, Jimmy Mundy, and Gordon Jenkins. As an organist he has been able to test his new arrangements before using them in his orchestra. For this performance, Felix has put together a compact big band with Stuart Grant on bass, Bob Emry on drums, Bob Curtis on clarinet and Eddie Bert on trombone. Musical selections, which are representative of a cross section of swing music from the 1930s, include: Take the A Train, Billy Strayhorn/Duke Ellington Beyond the Devil & The Deep Blue Sea, Harold Arlen Alone Together, Howard Dietz Charlie’s Prelude, F. Chopin/John Kirby, ARR. Don’t Be That Way, Benny Goodman/Edgar Sampson I Can’t Give You Anything But Love, Dorothy Fields/Earl Hines, ARR Moten Swing, Benny & Buster Moten Memories of You, Eubie Blake Nice Work If You Can Get It, George & Ira Gershwin One O’Clock Jump, Count Basie/Buck Clayton Somebody Loves Me, George & Ira Gershwin Slipped Disc, Benny Goodman It’s Been So Long, Walter Donaldson Other Music at Noon performances for the 2005-2006 season include: April 11 - William Simcoe & Spiral Ensemble Music of the Tango Piazzola,Machado, Bernardini Music for Guitar & Mandolin May 9 - Findlay Cockrell Classical Piano Time Warner Cable is pleased to sponsor the TSBMH 2005-2006 Music at Noon Concert Series as part of its Cable in the Classroom initiative. Through their Cable in the Classroom program, TWC provides free monthly cable and a free cable modem with access to Road Runner and the Internet for educational purposes to each accredited K-12 public and private school in the communities that we serve. To learn more about Time Warner Cable’s education programs and to subscribe to our free TWC Education Connection online newsletter, please visit www.twalbany.com or call 518-242-8839. Music at Noon concerts are free and open to the public. For more information on Music at Noon, contact the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Box Office at (518) 273-0038. Schools interested in attending should reserve seats and study guides and coordinate bus logistics through the Box Office. The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, named a National Historic Landmark in 1989, is in use over one hundred and fifty days a year. Since it opened its doors in 1875, the Hall has hosted performances by numerous world-renowned artists including Marion Anderson, Dizzy Gillespie, Peter Seeger, Ella Fitzgerald, Isaac Stern, Yo-Yo Ma, Henri Vieuxtemps, Ignace Jan Paderewski, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Jose Iturbi, Vladimir Horowitz, Yehudi Menuhin, and Artur Rubenstein, among many others.
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Lanesborough Fifth-Graders Win Snowplow Name Contest

LANESBOROUGH, Mass. — One of the snowplows for Highway District 1 has a new name: "The Blizzard Boss."
 
The name comes from teacher Gina Wagner's fifth-grade class at Lanesborough Elementary School. 
 
The state Department of Transportation announced the winners of the fourth annual "Name A Snowplow" contest on Monday. 
 
The department received entries from public elementary and middle school classrooms across the commonwealth to name the 12 MassDOT snowplows that will be in service during the 2025/2026 winter season. 
 
The purpose of the contest is to celebrate the snow and ice season and to recognize the hard work and dedication shown by public works employees and contractors during winter operations. 
 
"Thank you to all of the students who participated. Your creativity allows us to highlight to all, the importance of the work performed by our workforce," said  interim MassDOT Secretary Phil Eng.  
 
"Our workforce takes pride as they clear snow and ice, keeping our roads safe during adverse weather events for all that need to travel. ?To our contest winners and participants, know that you have added some fun to the serious take of operating plows. ?I'm proud of the skill and dedication from our crews and thank the public of the shared responsibility to slow down, give plows space and put safety first every time there is a winter weather event."
 
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