She was born in London as Julia Myra Hess, but was best-known by her middle name. At the age of five she began to study the piano and two years later ...
Plus, on paper, the name looks like a womans name Myra (a name shared by such figures as the famed British classical pianist Myra Hess and the title character in Gore Vidals novel-turned-film Myra Breckinridge). And to make matters more confusing,
Young Dave was raised in the Sierra foothills by Peter Brubeck, a rancher and rodeo-rider, and Elizabeth Ivey Brubeck, a pianist and music teacher whod studied with Myra Hess and Henry Cowell. Three of their sons pursued music, with Dave, the youngest, graduating from the College of the Pacific, in