News & Events 2002-2003

Chris Brubeck & Triple Play to Perform as Part of Blair Academy’s Bartow Mainstage Series

Blair Academy’s Bartow Mainstage Series presents Chris Brubeck and Triple Play on Saturday, December 14, at 8 p.m. in the DuBois Theatre of the Armstrong-Hipkins Center for the Arts. General seating tickets are $17 (non-refundable) and may be purchased by calling (908) 362-6121, ext. 5612, or on-line at www.blair.edu/Calendars & Events/Bartow Series.

The ensemble has performed with orchestras, in festivals and on stage at universities across the country. Chris Brubeck, son of jazz legend Dave Brubeck, along with Peter Madcat Ruth and Joel Brown, will play everything from jazz to folk, to blues and classics in this concert of celebration at Blair Academy. Brubeck plays bass trombone, bass and piano, with Ruth on harmonica and Brown on guitar. Their repertoire includes both Brubeck standards and originals and is suited for all music tastes.

Brubeck is a composer, orchestral arranger and world-class musician who also performs with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. The compact disc recording of “Bach to Brubeck” with the London Symphony Orchestra includes Chris performing his “Concerto for Bass Trombone and Orchestra.” Performance magazine described Ruth as “a harmonica virtuoso who is rapidly approaching legend status.” As for Brown, his career includes recording with the London Symphony and performing in Carnegie Hall with soprano Dawn Upshaw. He has also appeared at New York’s Alice Tully Hall with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and at the Tanglewood Festival.

The Bartow Series, funded from an endowment, was set up in memory of Nevett Bartow. Nevett was a student and later a music instructor and choral director at Blair in the 1960s and early 70s. He died in 1973 from leukemia at the age of 39, leaving a remarkable legacy, both in his music and in the memories and affections of his students and friends. The goal of the Bartow Series is to bring a broad range of performing arts to the Blair community at large, thereby heightening its appreciation for all forms of art.

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