“… If Music be the Food …”, a concert for the benefit of the Brockport Ecumenical Food Shelf and the Backpack/Foodlink program in the Brockport Central School District, is planned for Friday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the First Baptist Church, 124 Main Street in Brockport. Admission is a freewill donation of cash or packages of shelf stable food, which the Food Shelf will distribute to area residents of the Brockport Central School district south of Ridge Road who seek food assistance.
Stephen Jessup, principal trumpet of the Brockport Symphony Orchestra, will begin the program with a fanfare by Reiche, (J.S. Bach’s virtuoso trumpeter). Then Jessup and Margaret Johnson, pianist, will present music for trumpet and piano by Barry, Hamlisch, and Fitzgerald. The Brockport High School String Quartet will present movements of Mozart String Quartets 1, 2, 3, 4 and Eine kleine Nachtmusik. Thomas Gaynor, who is studying for the DMA degree in David Higgs’ studio at the Eastman School of Music, will present works of J.S. Bach, Robert Schumann, and Camille Saint-Saëns on the 1947 Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ. Jessup and Gaynor will present music for trumpet and organ by Chesnokov, Hovhaness, and Handel. The program will conclude with an audience sing-along of familiar tunes.
The Brockport Ecumenical Food Shelf provides local residents who need food assistance with four days worth of nutritious meals. Clients may shop once a month and are able to choose their food in person. Delivery service is available to homebound and mobility challenged clients. In 2014 the Food Shelf served an average of 452 individuals in 160 to 200 families each month.
The Food Shelf also coordinates the financing of the Backpack Program. Each Friday a member of the school staff distributes bags of nutritious, easily prepared food discretely into the backpacks of children who might go hungry over the weekend without the support provided by school breakfast and lunch programs, according to organizers.
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