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DAVID AMRAM
The First 80 Years! A Musical Celebration
Thursday, Nov. 11 at 7:30 P.M.
Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, NYC
| Please join us as we salute Jazz Forum Arts founding board member, David Amram, Renaissance Man of American Music. |
| Symphonic Variation on a song by Woody Guthrie (New York Premiere) Queens College Orchestra (60 pieces) Maurice Peress, Conductor Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Jazz Orchestra and Gospel Choir Earl McIntyre, Renee Manning Directors Film Clips, Jazz and Poetry, World Music Special Guests and more! |
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Tickets available at Box Office 212.864.5400
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| Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber works, written two operas, and early in his career wrote many scores for theatre and films, including "Splendor in the Grass" and "The Manchurian Candidate." He plays French horn, piano, guitar, numerous flutes and whistles, percussion and many folkloric instruments from 25 countries. He has conducted and performed as a soloist with symphony orchestras around the world, participated in international music festivals from Brazil to Cuba and from Kenya to Egypt. |
| Since maestro Leonard Bernstein appointed him as first composer-in-residence with the New York Philharmonic in 1966-67, Amram has emerged as one of the most acclaimed composers of his generation, listed by BMI as one of the Twenty Most Performed Composers of Concert Music in the U.S. since 1974. |
| For the past twenty-nine years (1970-1999), Amram has served as the Brooklyn Philharmonic's Music Director of young people's, family and free summer concert programs. As conductor, narrator, and soloist on instruments from all over the globe, he combines jazz, Latin American, Middle Eastern, Native American and folk music of the world in conjunction with the European classics. Amram was the first Music Director/Composer for Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, serving in those capacities from 1956-1969. He was also the first Music Director of the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater from 1964 to 1966. |
| David Amram was a close friend and collaborator of Jack Kerouac, with whom Amram played at the now famous first-ever jazz-poetry event in 1957 at the Brata Art Gallery on East 10th Street in New York City. Amram and Kerouac continued to collaborate, including readings at the Circle In The Square and in the Kerouac-narrated film, "Pull My Daisy." Kerouac also helped Amram with his 1964 cantata for soloists, chorus and orchestra, "A Year In Our Land," which included excerpts from Kerouac's The Lonesome Traveler. |
| A pioneer of world music and multi-cultural symphonic programming, David Amram continues to actively compose, conduct and perform. For additional information, see the official David Amram Web site at www.davidamram.com |