Dave Brubeck at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall

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Dave Brubeck, October 22 at 7 p.m.
Troy, NY - Still going strong after more than 50 years in the business, American jazz giant Dave Brubeck continues to create extraordinary music, reaching new heights with an unconventional technique that’s nearly impossible to copy. His unique rhythms and style have won the hearts of millions of jazz aficionados and new listeners alike. On Sunday, October 22 at 7 p.m., treat yourself to an evening with the granddaddy of jazz on stage at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall. For this performance, Dave is joined by Bobby Militello on alto sax and flute; Michael Moore on bass and Randy Jones on drums. Over his long and distinguished career, Dave Brubeck has performed before eight Presidents, princes, kings, heads of state and Pope John Paul II. He has recorded with such jazz legends as Louis Armstrong, Jimmy Rushing and Carmen McRae. An early experimenter in combining jazz with symphony orchestra, he celebrated his 80th birthday with the London Symphony Orchestra performing an all-Brubeck program that featured him with four of his sons and quartet member Bobby Militello as soloists. An entertainer of his caliber and longevity would certainly have amassed a long list of achievements in music. Brubeck has received a Jazz Master’s Award from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award for both piano and composition. He has earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; been inducted into the Pantheon of the Arts at University of The Pacific; been nominated to the Down Beat Hall of Fame and The Jazz Institute Hall of Fame at Rutgers University; received the American Eagle Award from the National Music Council; the Gerard Manley Hopkins Award from Fairfield University; the Connecticut Arts Award; Helwig Distinguished Artist Award and honorary doctorates from six American universities as well as one in Germany and England. Named in his honor, the Brubeck Institute at the University of the Pacific (his alma mater) is dedicated to furthering contemporary music of all styles, with an emphasis on improvisation. Brubeck would say that his best tunes began to germinate while growing up on a farm with a cattle roping cowboy dad and a cultured, classical piano teaching mom. While others heard the clip-clop of horse’s hooves, the vibration a gasoline engine and squeak of a water pump, Brubeck heard the sounds that he would later transform into the rhythmic building blocks for many of his most famous jazz tunes. “I’d always be thinking musically when I had jobs to pump water or ride horseback,” said Brubeck. “I’d lie there under the gasoline motor that was vibrating and I’m singing rhythms against that.” Although his father sent him to study veterinary medicine so Dave could join him in cattle ranching, as fate would have it, the music department was across the lawn from the science department. In his second year, Brubeck switched his major to music. The rest is history. Reserved seats for Dave Brubeck are $40 and $37 and may be purchased by calling the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Box Office at (518) 273-0038 or online at www.troymusichall.org . The Music Hall Box Office opens 90 minutes prior to the performance. Otherwise, Box Office operations are handled at its business office at 30 Second Street, Monday through Friday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The Troy Savings Bank Music Hall’s full season schedule can be viewed at www.troymusichall.org. 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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BVNA Nurses Raise Funds for Berkshire Bounty

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Massachusetts Nursing Association members of the Berkshire Visiting Nurses Association raised $650 to help with food insecurity in Berkshire County.
 
The nurses and health-care professionals of BVNA have given back to the community every holiday season for the last three years. The first year, they adopted a large family, raised money, bought, wrapped and delivered the gifts for the family. Last year, they sold raffle tickets and the money raised went to the charitable cause of the winner. 
 
This year, with food insecurity as a rising issue, they chose to give to Berkshire Bounty in Great Barrington.
 
They sold raffle tickets for a drawing to win one of two items: A lottery ticket tree or a gift certificate tree, each worth $100. They will be giving the organization the donation this month.
 
Berkshire Bounty seeks to improve food security in the county through food donations from retailers and local farms; supplemental purchases of healthy foods; distribution to food sites and home deliveries; and collaborating with partners to address emergencies and improve the food system. 
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