| 2008 | ||
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| Date | Time | Event |
| January 4 2008 | - noon until 2 pm | Artists Speak on Their Art
Roger Smith Hotel Penthouse at noon. 47th and Lexington Ave. Amram reads from his new book Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat and plays musical selections relating to the stories and adventures recounted in the book |
| Jan 7 2008 | 8:30-11 pm | NEW YEARS CELEBRATION: FIFTY THREE YEARS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
Amram and his quartet perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwrights, choregraphers, authors, poets and musicians from the 50's through today's innovative young artists. Surprise guest join Amram and his quartet with Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt,bass and Adam Amram congas. Actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos and other surprise guests will also appear. |
| Thursday Jan 10 | 8-11 pm - | Symphony Space Anniversary Gala
Amram joins a cast of New York's most celebrated actors, musicians, authors, playwrights, choreographers and artists to honor the innovative Upper Westside theater in an evening featuring over forty performers. (95th and Broadway. tickets are ailable online or at the box office) |
| January 11 | 8 p.m. |
Celebrating On The Road's 50th Year In Words and Music at the Theatre for the New City, Friday, January 11 at 8pm 155 First Avenue, Between 9th and 10th St., NY David Amram and sociologist Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D host a special retrospective of this past historic year and to celebrate how On The Road continues to inspire people to travel the world, write their lives and collaborate artistically. The evening will include music performed by Amram and his quartet, readings by students participating in the last run of Sprenger's cross-country sociology and documentary making course Jack Kerouac Wrote Here, Crisscrossing America Chasing Cool and for the first time, Amram's personal and musical reflections on the cultural impact of this important literary anniversary. This event is free and open to the public. |
| JAN 12-22 | DAY AND NIGHT | WORK COMPOSING NEWLY COMMISSIONED PIANO CONCERTO
Between selected interviews, Amram works composing his newly commissioned Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, to be premiered January 2009. He will also be completing revisions for the paperback re-issue by Paradigm Publishers of his 2002 memoir Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac due to be re-released in March of 2008. |
| Jan 17 | 8-12pm | Celebrating Jack Kerouac and On the Road
New York Public Library 42nd Street and Fifth Ave David Amram and Patti Smith headline a four hour tribute to Jack Kerouac. James Irsay, owner of the Baltimore Colts, who purchased the Scroll for On the Road hosts a tribute to the legacy of Jack Kerouac called Beatific Soul Amram and his quartet play musical favorites of the era as well as the the title song from the Kerouac-narrated silent film Pull My Daisy written in 1959 with lyrics by Kerouac, Neal Csssady and Allen Ginsberg and music by Amram. Patti Smith and her guitarist Lenny Kaye play her songs, and Amram and Smith do a duet, called Joining Generations There are also readings with music from the Scroll of On the Road performed by John Ventimiglia of the Sopranos, actress Adira Amram and Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth , accompanied by Amram to celebrate the first-ever jazz poetry readings presented in NYC by Kerouac and Amram in 1957. |
| Jan 23 | 10 -11:15 pm | the Fifties: When The East Village was the Lower East Side
10-11:5 pm at The Stone (corner of Ave C and 2nd street) Amram returns to his old neighborhood when he first moved to NYC in 1955 to perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwrights, choregraphers, authors, poets and musicians from the 50's through today's innovative young artists. Amram's quartet includes Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt, bass and Adam Amram congas. |
| Jan 24-Feb 3 | day and night | WORK COMPOSING NEWLY COMMISSIONED PIANO CONCERTO
Amram works composing his newly commissioned Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, to be premiered January 2009. He will also be completing revisions for the paperback re-issue by Paradigm Publishers of his 2002 memoir Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac due to be re-released in March of 2008. |
| Jan 29 | 9-11 pm | Back to Brooklyn Book Party and Concert:David Amram and Family
Amram joins and performs with his three children Adam, Alana and Adira Amram at Good-bye Blue Monday, 1087 Broadway, in Bushwick Brooklyn (tel 718 453-6343 for directions) Amram will read from his new book Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat perform classics of jazz, world music and his own compositions, and perform with his daughter, singer/songwriter Alana and her band Rough Gems 9-11 pm at Brooklyn's most community oriented music club. |
| Feb 4-7th | day and nght | Artist in Residence Wesleyan College
Amram guest conducts open rehearsals and performsnce of his Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie He will also give seminars for different departments, give readings from his new book, Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat,and perform for the openng of a new local art museum. Contact Wesleyan College Music Department in Middletown Connecticut for further details. |
| Feb 8th | 3:30-10 pm |
HOWL: 4th Annual Celebration of Columbia's two celebrated alumni Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. February 8, from 3:30 pm to 10:00 pm Buell Hall, Butler Library, Philosophy Hall, Morningside Campus With a panel discussion,hosted by Professor Ann Douglas,with authors John Leland of New York Times, Joyce Johnson and David Amram. There will also be student and alumni poetry readings, accompanied by Amram, a reception and exhibition in the Rare Book and Manuscript library in the evening, there will be a program of jazz and readings, with Amram and his quartet. Admission is FREE! |
| Feb 9th-19th | Day and night | WORK COMPOSING NEWLY COMMISSIONED PIANO CONCERTO
Amram works composing his newly commissioned Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, to be premiered January 2009. He will also be completing revisions for the paperback re-issue by Paradigm Publishers of his 2002 memoir Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac due to be re-released in March of 2008. |
| Feb 20th | 9-11pm | Readings from Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat and classics of jazz and world music
Amram reads from his new book, and joins his daughter simger/songwriter Alana Amram and the Amram Family Band at Banjo Jims, located at 9th street and ave C in the East Village. |
| Feb 23 | 2 pm-4 | I SPEAK OUT: CELEBRATING WORDS AND MUSIC FOR THE PAST 50 YEARS
Fresh City Life and the Denver Public library welcomes the return of Amram and his Denver based trio (Artie moore-bass and Tony black-drums).The trio perfoms music inspired by working with Kerouac and Amram demonstrates spontanious scat-rap and accompanies prize winning slam poet Panama Soweto, as he did with Kerouac in the 50s. The trio then joins hip-hop band The Flobots , a young Denver based group now recieving national recognition.The program is an intergenerational celebration of the evolution of words and music over the past half century. The concert is free and takes place at the Denver Public Library Central Branch. See their website for further details. |
| Feb 24 | 2-4 pm |
Celebrating On The Road's 50th Year In Words and Music Fresh City Lifeand the Denver Public Library present David Amram and sociologist Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D, hosting a special retrospective of this past historic year, celebrating how On The Road continues to inspire people to travel the world, write their lives and collaborate artistically. The evening will include music performed by Amram and his Denver based trio (Artie Moore-bass and Tony Black-drums), readings by students participating in the last run of Sprenger's cross-country sociology and documentary making course Jack Kerouac Wrote Here, Crisscrossing America Chasing Cool and Amram's personal and musical reflections on the cultural impact of this important literary anniversary. The event will be held at the Central Branch of the Denver Public Library. It is free and open to the public. |
| March 1 | 3 p.m. | WinterFest: Jazz on the Vine David-Amram Quartet Live
Amram and his quartet return to the East End of Long Island to perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwright Arthur Miller, author Jack Kerouac, director Elia Kazan,actor Floyd Red Crow Westerman classics of jazz and his own compositions based on his journeys around the world. With Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt,bass and Adam Amram congas. Duck Walk North 44535 Main Road Southold, NY 11971 Phone: 631 765 3500 www.liwinterfest.com |
| March 3 | 8:30-11 pm | FIFTY THREE YEARS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
Amram and his quartet perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwrights, choregraphers, authors, poets and musicians from the 50's through today's innovative young artists. Surprise guest join Amram and his quartet with Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt,bass and Adam Amram congas. Actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos and other surprise guests will also appear. Cornelia Street Cafe Greenwich Village New York |
| March 6th | -7 pm | DC INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL 10TH ANNIVERSARY
Jack Morton Auditorium at George Wshington University Amram has been invited to be the opening speaker,performer and honoree for the Festivsl. His citation states "for your contribution to the film industry, as a pioneer of jazz and as a collaborator with Jack Kerouac in music-poetry/spoken word jazz, as a music educator and a global mediator". On the morning of March 7, Amram will participate with film makers for an advocacy forum on Capitol Hill to state the importance of the arts in our society. |
| March 7 | 5-8 p.m. | RECORDING WITH SINGER MATT WELSH
New York City 5-8 pm |
| March 12 | 1-3 pm | INTERVIEW AND FILMING FOR "WISDOM" A NEW BOOK AND DVD
Spearheaded by Archbishop Desmond Tutu to document older people "who have made their mark, in some way, on the world".Other contributors in addition to Amram include Nelson Mandella, the Dalai Lama, Ted Kennedy, Clint Eastwood, Willie Nelson, Andrew Wyeth, Buzz Aldrin,and Nadine Gordimer. To be released world wide by PQ Blackwell Publishers. |
| March 13 3-5 pm | - | THE SPIRIT OF KEROUAC AS A GATEWAY TO YOUR OWN CREATIVITY
A talk, with music, for English Literature students at New York University, relating the spontanious to the formal, as well as readings from his books Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat and Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac |
| March 14-16 | day and night | NORTHEAST HORN WORKSHOP GUEST COMPOSER AND PERFORMER
Amram attends concert performances of his classical compositions, leads workshops in how French horn players can approach playing jazz, world music, accompany singers and poets and compose concert music, in addition to what french hornists have traditionally done. He will also lead two evenings of jazz with a small ensemble, read from his two books Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat and Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac give seminars as well as appear for signings at a local bookstore in Saratoga. He will also be interviewed for a special program about his compositions by radio station WMAC in Albany. Skidmore College Saratoga New York |
| March 17 | 7 pm-midnight | FOURTH ANNUAL STELLA BY STARLIGHT GALA BENEFIT
FOR STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING Actor Martin Sheen is to be presented with the Marlon Brando award for a life commited to social activism and excellence in film art. Actor Roy Scheider will be honored by a scholarship fund left in his name, and Amram will perform a piece in his memory. Other artists in attendance will be Elaine Stritch, the honorary chairwoman for the event, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin, Christopher Walken, Kyra Sedgwick, Whoopi Goldberg, Holland Taylor, Ben Brantley, Tommy Tune, Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson, Jonathan Demme, Marian Seldes, Don Cheadle, Natasha Richardson, and Matthew Modine. Funds from the event will support the many outreach programs of the Studio, bringing the performing arts to young people throughout New York City,as well as creating new programs for actors, dancers , musicians and playwrights at the Studio. Ciopriani's at 23rd st New York City |
| March 18-23 | day and night |
Amram will continue composing his newly commissioned Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, to be premiered January 2009. |
| March 24 | 7:30-9 pm | OPENING OF THE DAVID OPPENHEIM MUSIC CENTER IN NYC
Amram and his quartet give a concert, readings from his new book Upbeat:Nine Lives of a Musical Cat as featured performers at the opening of a new concert series in conjunction with the The Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the Harold Clurman Arts Series. Amram will also recount his work with Harold Clurman, Arthur Miller and Elia Kazan from 1963 to 1965 as the composer for the original Lincoln Center Theater productions. Other performers will include poet Grace Schulman, dancer Te Perez, pianist Sonya Kumiko Lee, and saxophonist Ned Otter. Amram has been named honorary chairman of the event. STELLA ADLER STUDIO OF ACTING 31 West 27th St FREE ADMISSION |
| March 25-27 | All day | Artist in Residence Miami Dade College Florida Center for the Literary Arts March 25-27 -27
Amram speaks to a series of English and creative writing students about the community of artists of the 50s whom author Jack Kerouac chronicled and how in 2008 this creates the possibility of renewed collaborations among today's young creative people. He will read from his new book Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Catand encourage the pursuit of interdisciplnary activites for all students, and the relationship between spontanious and formal artistic work. He will also host a screening of the classic 1959 Kerouac-narrated silent film Pull My Daisy for which Amram composed the score, co-wrote the title song and in which he appeared. He will also encourage all students to share their particular areas of expertise with fellow students from different disciplines. March 27th,from 7 p.m. -10 pm, he will host a special performance, From Cairo to Kerouac: Classics of Jazz, World Music and the Words of Jack Kerouac with musical accompaniment with his Miami based Trio and guest artists.students will also participate. The public i invited to attend. The event will be held at Tobacco Road Cafe , downtown Miami 7-10 pm |
| March 28 | 7-9 pm | THE NEW YORK/FLORIDA CONNECTION:A CELEBRATION IN WORDS AND MUSIC
The Jack Kerouac Writer in Residence Project presents: The 2008 Central Florida Book & Music Festival Eddie Rose Waterfront Amphitheater in Cranes Roost Park Friday night March 28 Free concert 7-9 pm David Amram's New York based Jazz quartet performs at Altamonte Springs Uptown, in a evening of classic jazz, Amram's own compositions, special selections of world music and readings from On the Road by Orlando's popular newscaster/author Bob Kealing, one of the founders of The Jack Kerouac Writer in Residence Project. Presented by the The Jack Kerouac Writer in Residence Project of Orlando, Inc. (see www.kerouacproject.org for all details.) |
| March 29 | Noon-3 PM | THE ORLANDO/ NEW YORK CONNECTION
A fund raiser for the Jack Kerouac Writer in Residence Project Amram and his quartet recreate the 1957 first jazz/poetry readings ever given in New York City by Kerouac and Amram. There is also a performance by David A. McElroy reading from his play An Evening with Jack Kerouac Lunch begins at noon, and the entire event taks place at the Holiday Inn Altamonte Springs. Reservations are suggested. |
| March 30 | all day | Interviews on radio and public television for upcoming inter-disciplnary residency at the Univirsuty of Central Florida and the fostering of Southern roots culture for future novelists, symphonic composers, playwrites, authors and the inclusion of all the arts as a way to build a sense of community throughout Florida. |
| March 31st | 2 -4 pm and 6-9 pm | No More Walls: Bridging the Gap between the Arts, Humanities and
Sciences Through Music: An interdisciplinary four day series of events at The University of Central Florida Library room 511, 2:00 pm Roundtable about Kerouac and the community of artists of all genres from the era of the Fifites, the enduring value of Kerouac's work and how his legacy is relevant to today's young artists. Hosted by the Library,Amram will also read from his three books, Vibrations, Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat and Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac There will also be a discussion of the significance of the 50th anniversary of The Dharma Bums which was written in the small house in College Park in Orlando, where the Kerouac Writers Project stands today. housing a new generation of writers. 6-9 pm In the Spirit of Cabeza deVaca: From the Lascaux Cave Paintings 15,000 BC to the Rappers of 2008, the role of artists as explorers, documentarians and historians. A journey through time celebrating outstanding innovative thinkers who chronicled as well as changed the world that they lived in. (Location TBA) |
| April 1 | noon and 7 pm |
FROM DVORAK TO HIP HOP:THE MANY WORLDS OF AMERICAN MUSIC Music Department Forum (12:00-1:00) A survey of the wealth of polycultural indiginous folk music and poetry that have enriched all music around the world. COLLABORATING WITH YOUR FRIENDS AND FELLOW ARTISTS Library room 223 7 pm-9pm Amram hosts a screening of Pull My Daisy, the short silent film narrated by Jack Kerouac and scored by Amram (in which he also appeared) He will give a report about the chaotic making of the film, followed by a Q/A session. This session will also encourage today's student to create their own documentary reportage, using today's inexpensive digital technology,as well as You-Tube, MySpace and the internet as a way to document and disseminiate their own filmed stories. The public is invited to attend. |
| April 2 | 12-1 pm | Luncheon at the Honor's College with faculty and students to hear their
plans and ideas for what they hope to achieve in their life's work. |
| April 3 | 10:30-11:45 am | Literature of the Holocaust
Amram joins Professor Moshe Pelli's class to compare the written documentation of survivers with Amram's opera of the holocaust, which was based on a true story that took place in a concentration camp. The opera was called The Final Ingredientwhich Amram composed and conducted for the world premiere telecast in 1965 on ABC National Television, which was shown for four years. Excsrpts of the original broadcst will be screened, and students will discuss the issue of genocide in modern society. |
| April 3 | 7pm-10 | AMRAM JAM at the REFLECTION POND
Amram ends his residency with an evening of improvising words and music with students, in conjunction with the Sigma Tau Delta English Honorary Club. There will also be readings of Kerouac with spontanious musical acompaniment. For any information about the residency,please contact Carole S. Hinshaw at the University of Central Florida Libraries. telephone 407 823-5880 or e-mail her at chinsaw@mail.ucf.edu |
| April 6 | 7-11 pm | Clearwater Festival Second Annual Fundraiser
Sunday April 6th at 7pm The Beacon High School Auditorium 101 Matteawan Road, Beacon, NY Odetta, David Amram,Pete Seeger, Toshi Reagon, Roland Mousaa, The Beacon High School Steppers, and BIGLovely. Tickets are $25, $35, and $50 each with a limited number of special sponsor tickets available. |
| April 7 | 7-8 pm | LORD BUCKLEY ANNUAL BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION: (His 102nd)
7-10 PM Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery @ Bleecker Amram and his quartet play a musical tribute to the great comedian/philosopher Lord Buckley with whom Amram played the night before he died in 1960, and in whose memory he composed the saxophone concerto Ode to Lord Buckley in 1981. The quartet then goes cross town to play at 8:30 at the Cornelia St. Cafe for their monthly series Fifty Years in Greenwich Village |
| April 7 | 8:30-11pm | FIFTY THREE YEARS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
Amram and his quartet perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwrights, choregraphers, authors, poets and musicians from the 50's through today's innovative young artists. Guest artists join Amram and his quartet with Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt,bass and Adam Amram congas. Actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos .poet Penny Vlagpoulos and English singer /songwriter Beatie Wolfe and other surprise guests will also appear. Cornelia Street Cafe Greenwich Village New York |
| April 9- 11 | Day and Night- | FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY'S ANNUAL WRITERS ON THE BAY FESTIVAL
Dan Wakefield, best selling author of New York in the Fifties hosts a festival for writers to foster creativity. Amram returns for the fourth season to discuss the relationship of structual principals of musical composition and how composing a symphony or a concerto is similar to writing a book. He will also discuss the collaborations he has had with major literary figurs over the past fifty years, and the importance of Wakefield's combining journalism and fiction as a way of remaining prolific throughout ones life as an artist. Contact the English Department of FIU for further details. |
| April 12 | 7-9 pm | READINGS AND SIGNING of NEW BOOK UPBEAT: NINE LIVES OF A MUSICAL CAT
Books on Books-Coral Gables Florida Amram gives readings and signs his new book, Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat a critically acclaimed recounting of his adventures in the many places music has taken him around the world. |
| April 15 | 5-7 and 7-10pm | AMRAM RESIDENCY AT BROWN UNIVERSITY
Celebrating a Half Century of Multi-Cultural Artistic Collaborations Tuesday, April 15 through Tuesday, April 22, 2008. 5 PM Grant Recital Hall (behind Orwig Music Building, 1 Young Orchard Readings from Amram's OffBeat, Collaborating with Kerouac and a discussion of the publication of Kerouac's "On the Road" 50 years ago and its relevance today for a new generation. Amram also discusses how his collaborations with Kerouac influenced Amram's own musical outlook and classical compositions. Dr. Audrey Sprenger, Ph. D Sociology, will join in a discussion on Kerouac's legacy and the continuing impact and social signifigance of "On the Road" to readers around the world. 7PM to 9PM, Orwig Music Building, Room 101. Amram is a special guest solist with Jeff Titon's Old-Time String Band, presenting a survey of Irish, Scottish and traditionl British Isles folkmusic and the evolution in the USA as the foundation for Bluegrass, Appalachin, Country and Western Swing music. |
| April 16 | 2 PM Three events | 2PM to 2:50PM, Orwig Music Department, Room 112 Amram leads workshop Folk Roots of the Symphonic Masters examining the influence of folklore on the works of Mozart, Brahms, Borodin, Tchaikoswky, Puccini, Bartok, Gershwin and Copland, as well as his own work, with students in Advanced Musicianship class.
4PM, Grant Recital Hall Combining the Spontaneous and the Formal: Improvising Jazz Solos and Composing Symphonies A talk with music showing the relationship of both creative disciplines, and how the spontanious nurtures the formal and vica versa. 7:30PM, Grant Recital Hall Screening of "The Manchurian Candidate" In Reel/Real Time: The Inside Story of Three Film Scores by David Amram. Amram discusses the making of the classic films he composed, orchestrated and conducted the scores for three major films and why he chose to pursue his own path of being a concert composer, multi-instrumentalist, advocate for world music,pioneer of spoken word with music and conductor who brought together new genres of all these elements with the European classics for the past fifty years, rather than pursuing the temptations of becoming a Hollywood composer. After recounting his struggles in creating the score for this unique 1962 film, Dr Audrey Sprenger will discuss the social and political atmosphere of the 50s portrayed in the film which dealt with McCarthyism and brainwashing of political prisoners. |
| Thursday April 17 | 4-9:30 pm | Thursday, April 17
4 to 5:45, Orwig Music Building, Room 112 From Bach to Charlie Parker; Purity of Intent and An Exquisite Choice of Notes. Amram is the guest lecturer for Shep Shapiro's music composition class. He will show Professor Shapiro's students how Charlie Parker constructed his spontanious improvised solos with the same harmonic and melodic mastery that Bach employed in his formal compositions. He will also discuss how Parker's solos, which sounded as if they had been written out, have an en\motional relationship to Bach's noted skills as an improvisor, which gave Bach the sensibility of writing music down on paper in his formal compositions which sounded spontanious as if they were being improvised. 6:30 PM, Hillel House, 80 Brown Street. Songs of the Soul, The Mysteries of Jewish Music. Amram discuses the polycultural nature of Jewish music as a refleection of a people who have traveled the world and whosemany genres of musical expression reflects their nomadic history. He will play excerpts of his symphony Songs of the Soul based on traditional Jewish themes from the immigrants of the Jewish communities of Etheopia,Yemen and Central Europe. There will also be a screening of Amram's The Final Ingredient, An Opera of the Holocaust commissioned and telecast by ABC network television for four seasons following its premiere in 1965. |
| Friday April 18 | 4pm+10 pm | Friday, April 18 4PM, Grant Recital Hall
The Legacy of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and Charles Mingus. The survey with musical examples will include a discussion of their shared connections with Pan African music and their interest in European classical music, Mid Eastern and Asian art, and mysticism. 10 PM, Grant Recital Hall From Cairo to Kerouac Classics of Jazz, World Music and the words of Jack Kerouac Amram's Quartet Jazz Quartet (Kevin Twigg, drums; Don Miller, bass; Adam Amram, congas, with special guest Chris Turner, harmonica play clasics of jazz. Latin and world music, Amram's own compositions and selections from Kerouac's On the Road which Kerouac and Amram debuted in New York's first-ever jazz/poetry readings in the Fall of 1957 at the Brata Art Gallery. |
| Saturday April 19 | 1 pm and 4 pm | Saturday, April 19 1PM, Blue State Coffee, 300 Thayer Street, Providence
In Reel/Real Time. Screening of Elia Kazan's The Arrangement, Amram recounts his adventures with director Elia Kazan in 1969, searching all over New York to find tradtional Turkish and Greek musicians who could not only play in their authentic folkloric style, but also join with a symphony orchestra in Amram's score, which also included jazz artists in order to enhance the theme of Kazan's own personal story of his struggles of maintaining his Old Country roots with his position as a major force in the modern American theater and film. Sociologist Dr. Audrey Sprenger will discuss how the film deals with ethnicity in the USA and the Canadian concept of being a mosaic rather than a melting pot. And how immigrant cultures always create challenges for first generation citizens. 4PM, Grant Recital Hall Words and music Amram describes the creation of his cantata, A Year in Our Land, after Jack Kerouac suggested fifty books to read, in order to find texts to celebrate the four seasons in America, and how Amram finally chose words by James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck and Walt Whitman, Excepts of the cantata will be played. |
| 2007 | ||
| Date | Time | Event |
| Jan3-4 | all day and night | The San Francisco/New York Connection: 1957-2007
The first series of opening events of a twleve day tour Jack Kerouac Wrote Here; Crisscrossing America Chasing Cool created by Dr. Audrey Sprenger, for 35 students from SUNY Potsdam, as an acredited college mid-term course. The opening two days features concerts, urban hikes and seminars in San Francisco, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of Kerouac and Amram's first jazz/poetry readings ever presented in New York City in 1957 with Bay area poets Howard Hart and Philip Lamantia and classics of jazz and World music with Amram's trio and guest readers Herb Gold and others. for details of cross country tour, see www.jackkerouacwrotehere.com |
| Jan 5-6 | all day and night | Denver at Last: The Scroll for On the Road Comes to Colorado
Screening of Pull my Daisy, the Kerouac.narrated film with Amram's music, urban hikes rediscovering the Denver of Neal Cassady, opening ceremony for the installation of the Scroll for On the Road at the Denver Public Library hosted by Amram with readers Carolyn Cassady. Carlos Lando of KUVO-FM, John Cassady, Dr.Audrey Sprenger and Amram's trio with Tony Black and Artie Moore, and a concert of classic jazz featuring songs which Kerouac mentioned in On the Road See jackkerouacwrotehere.com for details |
| Jan 7 | 2 pm-3:30 | From Kentucky to Colorado: The Literary Legacy of Hunter S.Thompson
A tribute to Hunter S. Thompson with readings by his son Juan Thompson, grandson Will Thompson and widow Anita Thompson, accompanied by Amram's music. For further details see Jackkerouacwrotehere.com |
| Jan 9-10 | all day and night | Diamonds in the Sidewalk: Fifty Years of Collaborations
Following the train ride from Denver to New York, the artistic community of the past half ceentury is celebrated with urban hikes, a visit to artist Ed Adler's studio, performances at Theater of the New City with actor John Venetimiglia, journalist Pat Fenton and Amram's trio performing readings of Kerouac and classics of jazz and world music, a program at the Bowery Poetry Club featuring today's young innovators and SUNY Potsdam students performing their own creations in Brooklyn. for details, see jackkerouacwrotehere.com |
| Jan 11-14 | all day and night | Where it all Began
Tours, seminars, a concert with resdings honoring Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Festival with Lowell artists poets and scholars Larry Carradini, Meg Smith, Paul Marion, Roger Brunelle, Billy Koumentzalis, John Leite and Phil Chaput. Final program features sociologist Charles Lemert and performances of Amram's chamber music compositons including a movement of his flute concerto Giants of the Night composed for Sir James Galway, which includes two French Canadian folksongs sung to Amram by Kerouac which the author learned in Lowell as a boy. |
| Jan 15-Feb 2 | - | Completing final two chapters and revisions of third book Upbeat; Nine Lives of a Musical Cat
to be published by Paradigm Press August of '07, and finishing composing Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie to be premiered September 28 '07. |
| Jan 17th | 8-12 pm | Celebrating Jack Kerouac and On the Road |
| February 3 | 8-11 pm | Reflections of Amram and Monk
The Brooklyn Conservatory celebrates Black History Month, with a program of compositions by Thelonious Monk and Amram. Soloists include Earl McIntire, Cecil Bridgewater, Rene Manning and Amram. President of the Borough of Brooklyn Marty Markowitz proclaimed February 3, 2007 David Amram Appreciation Day in Brooklyn ,where the award is to be presented prior to the concert. |
| Feb 9 | 12-2 pm | Concert with David Amram Trio in Hollywood California for Walk of Fame.
with Kevin Twigg drums and John de Witt bass Details TBA |
| Feb 11-13 | day and night | Artist in Residence Tulsa School of Music
work with compositions students, film scoring students, performanes of Amram's chamber music compositions including his piano trio Dirge and Variations performed by Trio Tulsa. Amram also solos with Univerity of Tulsa Jazz Orchestra performing his music at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame. He also hosts a screening of Pull my Daisy, the Kerouac.narrated film with Amram's music. |
| Feb 15-20 | - | Completing last chapter, Epilogue, and revisions of third book Upbeat; Nine Lives of a Musical Cat
to be published by Paradigm Press August of '07, and finishing composing Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie to be premiered September 28 '07. |
| Feb 21 | 2:25-3:15 pm | Visiting Scholar Horace Mann School New York
Reading from his book Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac speaking to English Literature students about creative writing and combining words and music, as he and Kerouac pioneered in NYC in the Fifties, with the forst jazz/poetry readings ever given in New York. |
| Feb 26-28 | Day and Night | Creativity= Spontaneity+Discipline SUNY Potsdam New York
Presentations with Professor of Sociology Dr. Audrey Sprenger and audio pioneer and documentarian Shae Shackleford and students for the entire student body of SUNY Potsdam, giving a survey of what was achieved during the traveling course Jack Kerouac Wrote Here; Crisscrossing America Chasing Cool For further information about this 12 day cross-country course, see jackkerouacwrotehere.com |
| March 1-10 | full time 2 weeks | Completing final chapter and revisions of third book Upbeat; Nine Lives of a Musical Cat to be published by Paradigm Press August of '07, and finishing composing Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie to be premiered September 28 '07. |
| March 5 | -8:30-11 pm | Fifty Years In Greenwich Village
Amram and his quartet perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwrights, choregraphers, authors, poets and musicians from the 50's through today's innovative young artists. Surprise guest join Amram and his quartet with Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt,bass and Adam Amram congas. Actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos and other guesta. |
| March 11-14 | day and night | Guest Artist-in-Residence Missouri State University Composition Festival 2007
Performances of Amram's orchestral and chamber music, and seminars in composition, music theory, world music and classes of French and Middle-Eatern studies, showing the relationship of middle-eastern music's influence on literary artists, visual artists and performers in the fieldsof dance, music and the theater. |
| March 15-17 | 8-11 pm | Los Angeles Release Celebration of Photographer Chris Felver's New Book "BEAT"
Amram host screenings of the 1959 documentary film Pull My Daisy in which Amram appeared as well as composing the music to accompany Kerouac's narration. He will also host and perform classics of jazz and world music, and accompany readings from the work of some of the authors and poets whose portraits appear in Felver's book. At 8 o'clock March 16The key event will be held at The Beyond the Baroque Gallery in Venice California, |
| March 16 | 8 p.m. | Mexican Premiere of Amram's concerto for flute and orchestra Giants of the Night
Flutist Claire Scandrett performs the Mexican Premiere of Amram's Concerto for flute and orchestra Giants of the Night March 16, 2007 with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra in the state of Veracruz. The concerto was commissioned and recieved its world premiere by Sir James Galway, with whom Claire Scandrett studied. |
| March 19-april 11 | - | Completing final chapter and revisions of third book Upbeat; Nine Lives of a Musical Cat to be published by Paradigm Publishing August of '07, and finishing composing Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie to be premiered September 28 '07 in San Jose California. |
| March 24 | 7 PM | CONCERT HONORING SINGER ODETTA FOR HER LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
The World Folk Music Association will honor folk legend Odetta with a Special Lifetime Tribute & Concert at the 22nd Annual WFMA Benefit concert, Saturday, March 24, 2007. The 7 PM event will held at the Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center, Alexandria, Virginia. Amram will be accompanied by his son Adam, and will join with Jsnis Ian, Caroline Hester, Josh White Jr, Jesse Winchester and Oscar Brand, with filmed tributes by Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger and others. |
| April 7 | 7-9 p.m. - | LORD BUCKLEY 101ST BIRTHDAY CONCERT
Bowery Poetry Club NYC 7-9 p.m. Amram joins Professor Irwin Corey and others in a tribute to the great comedian and philospher Lord Buckley. Amram performed with Buckley the night before he died in 1960, and wrote a saxophone concerto Ode to Lord Buckley to honor him. Amram will be joined by his quartet with Kevin Twigg,John de Witt and Adam Amram. |
| April 11 | -8 pm | LANGSTON HUGHES AND DAVID AMRAM COLLABORATIONS 1965
Professor Diane Turner and David Amram give a joint program about artistic and social interaction between the African-American and Jewish communities in the 1960s as part of the CAROLINE COVERSATIONS, held at the Arden Theater 40 N. 2nd St., Philadelphia. Three Movements of the cantata LET US REMEMBER with a text by Langston Hughes and choral settings by Amram will be performed |
| April 12-15 | day and night | Featured Artist at the Third Annual JazzMouth Festival of Spoken Word and Music
Amram returns for the third consecutive year to Portsmouth New Hampshire for the annual festival with guest poet-bassist-singer Eric Mingus,Andrei Cadrescu, and other musicians, poets and scholars, honoring the legacy of composer/band leader Sun Ra, who was a colleague of Amram's in New York City, in the 50s and 60s. |
| April 20-22 | day and night | Return to Rio Grande University in Southern Ohio
Amram returns for the third residency to Rio Grande Univerity for a special series of events for the Friends of the Library, speaking about 50 years of the arts in New York City, and creating musical accompaniaments for the works of authors and poets with whom he has collaborated, as well as performing his own music. |
| April 24 | all day | REUNION CONCERT AND FINAL EVENT OF "JACK KEROUAC WROTE HERE"AT STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK IN POTSDAM
Amram and his daughter Adira return to final event with and for the 32 students from SUNY Potsdam with whom they toured the country in January for the course Jack Kerouac Wrote Here; Crisscrossing America Chasing Cool Perormances and seminars. |
| April 28 | 8 pm | Amram speaks at performance of his Shakespearean concerto for oboe, two horns and strings
Amram is guest composer and speaker at a concert held in Bridgeport Connecticut. conducted by Richard Serbagi with his chamber orchestra in a performance of Amram's Shakespearean Concerto for oboe, two horns and stringswith viola solist Midhat Serbagi. |
| Monday night May 7th | *:30-11 p.m. | Fifty Years In Greenwich Village
Amram and his quartet perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwrights, choregraphers, authors, poets and musicians from the 50's through today's innovative young artists. Surprise guest join Amram and his quartet with Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt,bass and Adam Amram congas. Actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos and other guests. |
| May 14 | 8-10 p.m. | GUEST ARTIST WITH POETRY-MUSIC ENSEMBLE MERGE AT BOWERY POETRY CLUB NYC
Amram performs with musicians and poets,including Eric Mingus in a program to be recorded in June |
| May 15-25 | - | Completing last chapter, Epilogue, and revisions of his third book Upbeat; Nine Lives of a Musical Cat
to be released by Paradigm Publishing August of '07, and finishing composing Symphonic Variations on a Dong by Woody Guthrie to be premiered September 28 '07 in San Jose California. |
| May 26 | 10 p.m-10-20 | ANNUAL FESTIVAL OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE AT THEATER OF THE NEW CITY
1st ave and 9th street NYC FREE ADMISSION Amram performs for the eighth consecutive year at New York's annual celebration of New York's historic Lower East Side Community. |
| June 2 | 8-10:30 p.m. | FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF KEROUAC/AMRAM FIRST JAZZ POETRY READINGS EVER GIVEN IN NEW YORK in 1957
Theater of the New City 1st avenue at 9th Street The Kerouac Writer's Residence of Orlando Florida will have its Board of Directors in attendance for a special evening in New York by Amram's quartet with Kevin Twigg, John de Witt and Adam Amram. The free concert at Theater of the New City will include actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos narrating the works of Kerouac with music. The quartet will also accompany guest vocalist Trish O'Brien, narrator Jeff Cole as well as performing clasics of jazz, world music and Amram's own compositions. |
| June 4th | 8:30-11p.m. | Fifty Years In Greenwich Village Amram and his quartet perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwrights, choregraphers, authors, poets and musicians from the 50's through today's innovative young artists. Surprise guests join Amram and his quartet with Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt,bass and Adam Amram congas. there are guest appearances by actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos and other guests |
| June 15-17 | Evening Performance | OPENING CEREMONIES FOR THE INSTALLATION OF THE ORIGINAL SCROLL OF JACK KEROUAC'S "ON THE ROAD" IN HIS HOME TOWN OF LOWELL MASS
Amram has been invited to speak and perform at the opening ceremonies of Lowell's three month celebration of author Jack Kerouac to be held June 15th. Amram will talk briefly about Kerouac's legacy and then perform his Variations on Amazing Grace June 16th Amram is the featured guest artist at the evening gala, performing with the young musicians of Lowell's premiere band Hot Day at the Zoo |
| June 18-28 | - | Finishing composing Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie to be premiered September 28 '07 in San Jose California. |
| June 30-July 1 | - | FESTIVAL HONORING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PUBLICATION OF JACK KEROUAC'S NOVEL "ON THE ROAD"
Boulder Colorado Amram is the opening reader June 30th in a marathon reading of Jack Kerouac's On the Road He will also accompany other readers and appear on panels throughout the day. In the evening, he will host a screening of the classic beat documetary silent film Pull My Daisy, narrated by Kerouac for which Amram composed the score, co-wrote the title song with lyrics by Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady and in which Amram appeared as Mezz McGillicuddy, the deranged french hornist. Sunday night July 1st, Amram will give concert with Denver musicians Tony Black and Artie Moore, performing classics of jazz, world music and recreating his jazz/poetry collaborations with Kerouac. |
| July 2-4 | - | FROM KENTUCKY TO COLORADO: A JULY 4TH MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO HUNTER S. THOMPSON
Amram returns to Aspen to lead a musical tribute to the American author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson, to be held in nearby Woody Creek. In the Summer of 2005, Amram performed at Thompson's memorial service and final blastoff in a band he created which included Johnny Depp, Lyle Lovett and others. The July 4th concert will include brief readings of Thompson's words with music, and some of his favorite global music. The concert will be open to the public. Details TBA. |
| July 7th | 2:30-6:30 | LOWELL CELEBRATES KEROUAC FESTIVAL'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY
Amram leads Amram Jam A five hour afternoon marathon concert in Lowell Mass at the Rainbow. The event features performnces by local and visiting musicians, poets and actors. He will accompany the work of all of the different performers spontaniously, as he did with Kerouac a half a century ago. Amram has done this for for many years for the annual Festival's closing event. . further Details TBA |
| July 11-14 | Day and Night | WOODYFEST: THE ANNUAL FESTIVAL HONORING OKLAHOMA NATIVE SON WOODY GUTHRIE
Amram returns for the third year to Okemah Oklahoma to perform in the annual tribute to Woody Guthrie, held in Okemah Oklahoma, Woody's place of birth. Amram will be accompanied by his son Adam Amram, and perform in a marathon of events, with Jimmy LaFave and scores of other Oklahoma musicians, song writers and poets. All events are free. Amram will also speak to members of the audience about his new orchestral work Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie, commisioned by the Guthrie Foundation at the suggestion of Woody's daughter Nora Guthrie. |
| July 15-26 | - | Final work composing and orchestrating the last Variation of "Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie", to be premiered Sept 29 in San Jose California. |
| July 21 | 8 p.m. | CONCERT FOR CONGRESSMAN JOHN HALL
Amram headlines an evening concert for U.S. Congressman John Hall, to be held in Kent Cliffs New York. |
| July 27-29 | -2 pm | PERFORMANCE FOR 21ST CONSECUTIVE YEAR AT PUTNAM COUNTY'S ANNUAL 4-H FAIR
Amram and his quartet perform at the free 4-H Fair Sunday afternoon the 29th at Veteran's Park in Carmel NY. Amram also mans the vegetable stand where he roasts corn for three days, when not performing with others. |
| Aug. 13 | 10 pm- midnight | New York's "Diamonds in the Sidewalks" The Artistry of the Sociological Imagination An evening with words and music.
David Amram's Quartet is joined by sociologist and author Charles Lemert, Sopranos actor John Ventimiglia, reading the words of Jack Kerouac with music, and Kate Mills reading from the work of her father C. Wright Mills and from Dan Wakefield's New York in the 50s The concert was created to honor the American Sociological Association's annual conference. It is presented by Paradigm Publishers and The Theater of the New City. located at 155 First Ave. NYC. |
| august 13 | -2 -4 pm | A Musical tribute to Steve Goodman
Musicians who worked with the songwriter Steve Goodman perform a tribute to him at New York's Bitter End to celebrate his life and the new biogrophy writen by Clay Eals. Goodman and Amram performed there together in the 70's. The Bitter End is located on Bleeker St and Thompson in Greenwich Village. |
| August 14 | noon to 5 pm | Tour celebrating the enduring legacy of New York's Artistic Community of the 1950s
Amram hosts a tour for Danish National television of remaining venues where he, Kerouac and scores of musicians, painters, poets, authors, and people from all walks of life communed.and describe what is happening with today's new innovators as a result. The documentary film will be shown later in the year. |
| August 19 | -2 pm | Interview for "Film Score Monthly Magazine"
Journalist Mark Rhodes interviews Amram about his film scores of the past and current work for the documentary feature film The Frontier Ghandi |
| august 23 | 2-4 p.m. | Interview for WOR AM about "On the Road" and Amram's new book "Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat"
Amram talks about the meaning of Kerouac's classic book today for young people, their collaborations of fifty years ago,and Amram's continuing music making, travels and adventures, all described in his new book, due to be released in October. |
| August 31st | 10-noon - | Documentary Film, performing with Pete Seeger
Pete Seeger and Amram perform together for a documentary film about Native American singer Roland Mousaa, filmed in Beacon New York. |
| September 2 | 3-4 p.m. | BRADSTOCK XIII THE ANNUAL LABOR DAY CONCERT
Amram returns for the ninth time to Bradstock in West Sayville Long Island for their annual festival, which raises funds for Long Island Youth organizations. His quartet, with Kevin Twigg, John de Witt and Adam Amram will play classics of Jazz, world music and Amram's own compositions. |
| September 2 | 8-11 pm | Corky Siegel/Amram Chicago/New York Reunion
Corky Siegel and Amram reunite at the towne Crier on Route 22 in Pawling NY for the first time since Amram conducted the world Prmeiere of a symphonic work by Siegel with the Grant Park Symphony in Chicago. In the 1970's Amram and Seigel also performed and recorded together in Chicago with singer-songwriter Steve Goodman. |
| Sept 3 | 8:30-11 p.m. | Labor Day Special: 50 Years In Greenwich Village
Amram and his quartet perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwrights, choregraphers, authors, poets and musicians from the 50's through today's innovative young artists. Surprise guest poet Jose Pacheco joins Amram and his quartet with Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt,bass and Adam Amram congas. Actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos and other guests will also perform. Amram will read excerpts from his new book Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat |
| September 6 | -10-12 p.m. | "Diamonds in the Sidewalks" A celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Kerouac/Amram first Jazz/poetry readings ever given in New York in 1957.
David Amram's quartet, with Kevin Twigg,John DeWitt and Adam Amram are joined by John Ventimiglia of The Sopranosactress Adira Amram and Scottish actor Russell Brand, as the featured program for New York's annual HowlFest The program will be held at the Bowery Poetry Club on Third Avenue and Bleeker Street. It will be filmed for BBC and broadcast internationally at a later date. |
| September 7 | 8 p.m. | FROM CAIRO TO KEROUAC: A CELEBRATION OF THE WORDS AND HERITAGE OF JACK KEROUAC IN LOWELL
Amram brings his quartet to Boardinghouse Park in Lowell to celebrate the half century of his first public collaborations with Kerouac in 1957. Amram's quartet with Kevin Twigg, John DeWitt and Adam Amram will be joined by special guest, saxophone master Jerry Dodgion. The program includes some of Kerouac's favorite classics of jazz and world music which he heard while growing up in Lowell. Actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos will read excerpts from On the Road with musical accompaniment. |
| September 9 | 4-6 PM | CLASSICAL JACK: SYMPHONIC COMPOSITIONS OF DAVID AMRAM AND DUKE ELLINGTON
For the last days of the three month appearance of the originsl Scroll for Kerouac's On the Road in Lowell, Amram's quartet joins Orchestra New England conducted by Kay George Roberts at the Merrimack Theater in Lowell Mass. the concert is from 4 to 6 pm. Flutist Fenwick Smith, of the Boston Symphony, will be soloist in Amram's flute concerto Giants of the Night, commissioned and premiered by Sir James Galway. The second moveent of the concerto contains two French Canadian folk songs which Kerouac learned as a child in Lowell. The orchestra will also perform Amram's En Memoria de Chano Pozo for Jazz Trio and Orchestra and Two Settings from On the Road for Narrator and String Orchestra Amram will also be a soloist in Duke Ellington' orchestral work Three Black Kings |
| Sept 9 | 11 pm.to midnite | AMRAM PLAYS IN THE FINALE OF FARM AID WITH WILLIE NELSON AND HIS BAND
Amram catches plane from Boston to New York directly after Lowell afternoon concert in time to play finale for Farm Aid concert for the 15th time with Willie Nelson. It is being held this year at Randall's Island. See Farm Aid webpage for details. |
| Sept 10 | 8 pm | The Influence of Jazz on the Arts and Society
David and Adam Amram perform a concert and seminar showung the influence of Jazz over the past one hundred years, and how it relects as wella as effects much of what our culture is about. The event takes place at Rivier College and is open to the public. |
| September 15 | 2 pm | The Harold Clurman Festival of the Arts: At Home Around the World
Amram and his quartet perform music inspired by his lifetime of travels, as well as his chamber music played by violist Midhat Serbagi and pianist Heidi Upton. the concert will be held at the Stella Adler Studio 31 West 27th Street. Amram composed music for Arthur Miller's Incident at Vichy which Harold Clurman directed in 1965 at the Lincoln Center Theater. |
| September 16-18 | Day and night - | London Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the publication of "On the Road"
Amram has been invited as a special guest to appear in London at the British Library to perform in a series of events. He will accompany readers and appear on panels throughout the day. In the evening, he will host a screening of the classic beat documentary silent film Pull My Daisy, narrated by Kerouac for which Amram composed the score, co-wrote the title song with lyrics by Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady and in which Amram appeared as Mezz McGillicuddy, the deranged french hornist. Amram will also give a special concert with London musicians, performing classics of jazz, world music and recreating his jazz/poetry collaborations with Kerouac. |
| September 29-30 | 8 p.m. | WORLD PREMIERE OF "SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS ON A SONG BY WOOODY GUTHRIE"
Conductor Paul Polivnick conducts the premiere performances of Amram's new orchestral work,to be performed by the Symphony Silicon Valley. The work was commissioned by the Guthrie Foundation and uses the song This Land is Your Land as a basic theme. Each variation takes the listener on a voyage through American music, using the idioms of Native America, the South, Oklahoma church music, Mexican American cantos , blues,and jazz. The finale incorporates the sounds of Middle Eastern, Asian, Afro-Cuban traditional Jewish and other polycultural sounds of New York of the 40's, music which Guthrie heard constantly when living in Brooklyn. |
| Oct 4th | 8 p.m. | CELEBRATION OF KEROUAC 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ON THE ROAD IN PHILADELPHIA
Authors Joyce Johnson and John Leland read from their work at the Philadephia Public Library, celebrating their books about author Jack Kerouac which are published by Viking. They are joined by Amram who will perform music representing the interest shared by many artists of the 50s in jazz, classical and world music. Amram will also sign copies of his new book Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat The event is open to the public and free. |
| October 5th-7th | 3 days and nights | ANNUAL LOWELL CELEBRATES KEROUAC FESTIVAL
Amram performs, reads and hosts programs throughout the three days and nights of the annual festival in Kerouac's home town of Lowell, with the final five hour Sunday afternoon Amram Jam where all attending the event read a poem or play music, accompanied by Amram and his quartet. (See Lowell Celebrates Kerouac webpage for details.) |
| October 13 | 8 p.m. | SHIRAY NESHUMA:SONGS OF THE SOUL
Classics of jazz and world music and Amram's own compositions, performed by his New York quartet with Kevin Twigg,drums, John deWitt, Bass and Adam Amram, congas. At Woodland Community Temple, 50 Worthington Road, White Plains new York. |
| Oct 14 | 2-4 pm | READINGS WITH MUSIC OF JACK KEROUAC'S ORIGINAL SCROLL FOR "ON THE
ROAD" Actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos reads from the original typewritten 1951 Scroll which was Kerouac's first unedited draft of what six years later became his pulished novel. Musical accompaniament as well as pieces representing the era will be performed by David Amram and members of his Denver based trio Tony Black on drums and Artie Moore on bass. Professor Joshua Kupetz, one of the editors of the Scroll, just published by Viking Press, will also speak about the Scroll and its significance a half a century later. The event will be held at the Denver Public Library, and admission is free. |
| October 15 | noon-2 pm - | AMERICAN DREAMERS: THE COLLABORATIVE WORK OF JACK KEROUAC AND DAVID AMRAM
Amram discusses how Kerouac's writings. ideas and friendship influenced Amram's symphonic work, including his two newest orchestral pieces, Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie and Giants of the Night a flute concerto commissioned and premiered by Sir James Galway. FREE ADMISSION DENVER CENTRAL LIBRARY |
| October 15 | 7:30 p.m-10 pm-- | DRAMATIC READING OF A WORK BY HOWARD ZINN
Amram joins a cast of outstanding actors, reading speeches by Chief Tecumsah and Howard Zinn, as well as performing music for the Howard Zinn play Voices of the People's History Presented at The Curious Theater on Acoma Street, sponsored by Paradigm Publishers |
| October 16 | 4 p.m. | LIVE ON AIR CONCERT WITH AMRAM'S TRIO FOR RADIO STATION KUVO
Amram and his trio with Tony Blsck on drums and Artie Moore bass play a fund raiser for Denver's prize winning independent radio station. |
| Oct 16 | 7:00 pm | AMRAM READS EXCERPTS FROM HIS NEW BOOK Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat
At 7:30 pm, Amram will read passages from his newest book at Tattered Covered LoDo, the downtown branch of Denver's largest independent book store at 1628 16th Street. There will also be a few brief musical performances by him, as well as disucussion with the audience. All ages are invited to this free event. |
| October 17 | 1 to 5 pm - | AMRAM AT UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER: FROM HOMER TO HIP HOP
Amram joins Professor Joshua Kupetz, one of the editors of the original Scroll for Jack Kerouac's On the Road and addresses Kupetz's English literature students, demonstrating the relationship of literature and music in different societies, showing how both authors and composers have used their own cultures to enrich their creations, while also serving as documentarians for their time, as well as often collaborating and being inspired by one another. |
| October 18 | 4-5:30 p.m. | UPBEAT: NINE LIVES OF A MUSICAL CAT, A BILINGUAL CONCERT FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS
Amram and his Trio play music from around the world, with Amram narrating in English and Spanish, using instruments and music which Amram learned in his travels and described in his new book Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat |
| October 22 | 12-6 p.m. | RECORDING AND FILMING WITH RICHIE HAVENS AND PETE SEEGER FOR DOCUMENTARY ON NATIVE AMERICAN SINGER ROLANDS MOUSSA
Amram and others record and film new documentary film and Cd for Apache singer-songwriter and painter Roland Moussa. with whom Amram has collaborated since 1969. Rheinbeck New York |
| Oct 23-26 | day and night | AMRAM EVENTS IN ST PETERSBURG FLORIDA
Amram appears at a series of concerts, seminars and readings arranged by Prof David Irwin of Eckart College. Amram will host a screening of the 1959 documentary film Pull My Daisy in which Amram appeared as well as composing the music to accompany Kerouac's narration. He will also host and perform classics of jazz and world music, and accompany readings from the work of some of the authors and poets he has collaborated with over the past fifty years. |
| Oct 27 | 10-12a.m. | AMRAM READS FROM NEW BOOK AT ST PETERSBURG TIMES ANNUAL BOOK FAIR
From 10 a.m. until noon, October 27, Amram will attend the event and be a featured author, reading from and signing his new book, Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat. He will also co-host a panel celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kerouac's On the Road , and discuss his twelve years as the author's musical collaborator as well as contributing to the founding of the Jack Kerouac Writer's Residence in Orlando Florida. |
| October 31 | 7-9 p.m. | AMRAM READS FROM HIS NEW BOOK AT THE HARVARD COOP IN CAMBRIDGE MASS.
Amram will return as the featured author to Harvard Square, reading from and signing his new book, Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat.for a Holloween Eve special presentation. |
| November 1 | 10 a.m. until 9 p.m | AMRAM AT THE BERKLEE SCHOOL OF MUSIC: EXPANDING YOUR HORIZONS
Amram spends the day in Boston at the Berklee School, with students, sharing with them the experiences he has had as a classical composer, jazz artist and collaborater in the theater, ballet, films as well as a being a pioneer of jazz poetry 50 years ago with author Jack Kerouac. Amram will give a concert in the evening, before driving back to New York to fly to San Francisco. |
| November 3 | 7 p.m. | THIRTY YEARS LATER TOGETHER AGAIN
Amram performs in benefit concert for Native Americans at Fillmore in San Francisco: A thIrty year reunion with Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Dennis Banks, Kris Kristofferson and Taj Mahal. Amram performed in the 70s throughout the country with Floyd Red Crow Westerman and Dennis Banks for The Longest Walk, which is being repeated this coming winter in a walk across the country by Native Americans and supporters to seek better social conditions for all Americans. |
| November 5th | 8:30 p.m. - | 50 Years In Greenwich Village
Amram and his quartet perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwrights, choregraphers, authors, poets and musicians from the 50's through today's innovative young artists. Surprise guests join Amram and his quartet with Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt,bass and Adam Amram congas. Actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos will also perform. Amram will read excerpts from his new book Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat |
| November 8 | 6:30-8 p.m. | BEATIFIC SOUL: JACK KEROUAC ON THE ROAD
Guest at the opening ceremonies and viewing of the new exhibition at the New York Public library 5th Ave and 42nd Street. The original Scroll for On the Road is being installed at the Library. Amram has played over the past three years in various parts of the ciuntry where the Scroll has appeared and will continue to do so when it resumes its tours to various libraries. |
| November 9-12 | day and night | AMRAM FEATURED ARTIST AT LONDON INTERNATIONAL POETRY AND MUSIC FESTIVAL
As soon as he arrives in England, Amram will appear on BBC, perform music, do panels, host a screening of the 1959 documentary film Pull My Daisy in which Amram appeared as well as composing the music to accompany Kerouac's narration. He will also host and perform classics of jazz and world music, and accompany readings from the work of some of the authors and poets he has collaborated with over the past fifty years, and many of today's young writers and musicians. Author Carolyn Cassady and poet Ron Whitehead will join artists from around the world for this event, organied by Welsh poet and playwrite Richard Deakin. |
| November 14 | 7 p.m. | THE INFLUENCE OF JAZZ ON THE WORK OF KEROUAC AND OTHER ARTISTS OF THE FIFTIES
Amram joins authors Ashley Kahn and John Leland in readings and discussions with the audience about the enduring legacy of jazz as an influence for all aspects of our society. This free event is held in one of Manahttan's premier independent bookstores The Housing Works Books, located at 126 Crosby Street in Soho. |
| Nov 17 | 3 pm | LINCOLN CENTER LIBRARY PRESENTS "AN AFTERNOON WITH DAVID AMRAM" CELEBRATING HIS 77TH BIRTHDAY AND 50TH YEAR OF NY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL'S FIRST SEASON IN CENTRAL PARK, WITH AMRAM AS THEIR FIRST COMPOSER IN 1957.
David Amram is joined by a group of performers including Metropolitan Opera violist Midhat Serbagi, pianist Heidi Upton,opera singers Anne McCenna and David Kellet to perform excerpts from Amram's opera Twelfth Night with a libretto by Joe Papp, the founder of the New York Shakespeare Festival. Other guest artists will include actor John Ventmiglia, Amram's own three children Alan, Adira and Adam. Original cast members from the Central Park's first summer season 50 years ago will also attend, and Amram will discuss his involvement with setting Shakespeare's words to music and how this influenced his other compositions. Admission is free |
| Dec 3 | 8:30-11 pm - | 50 Years In Greenwich Village: Cornelia Street Cafe New York City
Amram and his quartet perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwrights, choregraphers, authors, poets and musicians from the 50's through today's innovative young artists. Actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos poets Frank Messina and Mike Figliola and surprise guests join Amram and his quartet with Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt,bass and Adam Amram congas. Amram will also read excerpts from his new book Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat Cornelia Street Cafe Greenwich Village $10 admission. |
| December 4-Jan 5th | -Day and night | COMPOSING NEWLY COMMISSIONED PIANO CONCERTO
Between selected engagement TBA, Amram will complete the year 2007, composing his newly commissioned Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, to be premiered January 2009.he will also be completing revisions for the paperback re-issue by Paradaigm Press of his 2002 memoir Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac due to be re-released in March of 2008. Engagements for 2008 will be posted towards the end of this year. |
| Dec 24 | -8 pm | CHRISTMAS EVE AT THE 92nd STREET Y WITH DAVID BROZA AND FRIENDS
Featured guest with David Broza and his orchestra in the annual holiday concert |
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| Jan 3 | 8:30-11pm | NEW YEARS CELEBRATION: FIFTY YEARS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
Amram and his quartet perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwrights, choregraphers, authors, poets and musicians from the 50's through today's innovative young artists. Surprise guest join Amram and his quartet with Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt,bass and Adam Amram congas. Actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos and other surprise guesta will also appear. |
| Jan 7 | 7:30 PM | Tarpon Springs Performing Arts center. Tarpon Springs, FL. Dedicated to the memory and legacy of Dimitri Mitropoulos. Amram conducts the Renaissance Classical Orchestra in music by Pachelbel, Borodin, Bach, Teleman, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington and Mozart. |
| Jan. 14 | 7:30 PM | Olympia, WA. Washington Center for the Performing Arts. David Amram Quartet: <b><i>From Cairo to Kerouac - classics of jazz, World Music and the spoken word</i></b>. |
| Jan 15 - Jan 25 | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and "Missa Manhattan" for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank McCourt, and completing a new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat" | |
| Jan 21 | 8 PM | Fairfield Theatre Company, 70 Sanford St., Fairfield, CT - "From Cairo to Kerouac: Classics of Jazz and World Music" with guests Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon reading the words of Jack Kerouac. For more information, contact Eileen O'Reilly, 203-319-1404 x7# |
| Jan. 26 | 8:00 PM | Schein Hall, Sannibel, FL. Amram conducts the Renaissance Classical Orchestra in music by Pachelbel, Borodin, Bach, Teleman, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Mozart and Amram's setting of the finale of Kerouac's On The Road for narrator and string orchestra. |
| Jan 27 | 7:30 | Sannibel, FL. Sannibel Arts Center. David Amram Trio w. Adam Amram and poet Jose Pacheco. Readings from Amram's two books "Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac" and "Vibrations", |
| Jan 29 | 4:00 PM | St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 401 Duval Street, KeyWest, FL. Amram conducts the Renaissance Classical Orchestra in music by Pachelbel, Borodin, Bach, Teleman, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington and Mozart. Ticket info and address TBA. |
| Jan 30 | 7:30 PM | St. Pablo Catholic Church, Marathon, FL. Amram conducts the Renaissance Classical Orchestra in music by Pachelbel, Borodin, Bach, Teleman, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington and Mozart. Ticket info and address TBA. |
| Jan 31 | 5:00 PM | Florida International University, Miami, FL. Wolfe University Center. Concert by the FIU Center for Spirituality. "Spirituality and the Beats: Buddhism, Bach and Be-bop" - Seminar by Amram. |
| Feb 1 - 4 | - | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on asong by Woody Guthrie", and Missa Manhattan for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank Mccourt, and completing new book "Nine Lives of aMusical Cat" |
| Feb 6 | - | Fairfield, CT. Artist in residence, Fairfield University. Amram conducts orchestra rehearsal for program of the music of Leonard Bernstein, Gershwin and Amram. |
| Feb 10 | - | Concert for Native American Sacred Run - with Floyd Redcrow Westerman, Dennis Banks, Peter Coyote and others TBA. Studio Z, 314 11th St., San Francisco, CA. See this link for details. |
| Feb 12 - 15 | - | Hilton Head, SC. Performances of Amram's Flute Concerto, written for Sir James Galway with Mimi Stillman, flute soloist with the Hilton Head Symphony, and appearancs in schools demonstrating the roots of symphonic music. |
| Feb 23 | 8:00 PM | Huntington Pointe, FL. Amram conducts the Renaissance Classical Orchestra in music by Haydn, Dvorak, Pachelbel, Borodin, Teleman and Mozart - also Amram's "Theme and Variations on Red River Valley" for flute and strings. Soloists TBA. |
| Feb 24 - Mar 1 | - | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and Missa Manhattan for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank Mccourt, and competing new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat" |
| Mar 2 - 3 | 7:00 PM | Lake City (Dowling Park), FL. Advent Christian Village (Mar 2), matine concerts for young people, Community Concerts of Lake City(Mar 3, 7:30 PM). Program TBA. |
| Mar 4 | 3:00 PM | Mobile Chamber Music Society, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL. Amram conducts the Renaissance Classical Orchestra in music by Pachelbel, Borodin, Bach, Teleman, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Mozart and Amram's setting of the finale of Kerouac's On The Road for narrator and string orchestra. This concert will be in conjunction with an exhibition for David Amram Week in Mobile with photographs, book signings and display of Amram caricatures. |
| Mar 11 | 7 - 10 PM | Lowell, MA - Amram Jam: "Lowell Celebrates Kerouac's birthday annual tribute to Kerouac" - MAMBO GRILL Merrimack St. downtown Lowell Classics, of Jazz, world music and performances by area poets, authors and musicians, accompanied by Amram |
| Mar 12 | - | Littleton MA. Indian Hill Music Center - celebrating the 25th anniversary of the premier of "Ode to Lord Buckley", Amram's concerto for saxophone and orchestra. Bruce Hangen, conductor; Kenneth Radnofsky, saxophone soloist. For details, see www.indianhillmusic.org. |
| Mar 17 | 7 PM | New York Historical Society. "Birdwatch" - Amram plays flute, ocharina and whistles as well as compositions celebrating the sounds of birds on the American continent to accompany the Audibon Society's exhibition. |
| Mar 20 | 8:00 PM | Classic Chamber Concerts at Sugden Community Theatre, Naples, FL. Amram conducts the Renaissance Classical Orchestra in music by Pachelbel, Borodin, Bach, Teleman, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Mozart (Piano Concerto). Soloists TBA. |
| Mar 23 - 28 | - | New York City. "Kerouoac's Road: Stops on the Way" Amram joins Denver University's traveling students and international guest faculty for programs in New York City and Lowell, MA. Program to include Amram's "Cairo to Kerouac" and readings from Amram's two books "Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac" and"Vibrations". |
| Mar 28 - Mar 31 | - | Artist in Residence, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT. Seminars, Tuesday Mar 28 - work with jazz ensemble and arts students; Thursday Mar 30 12:30 to 1:30 - seminar for students and the public "The Influence of Judiasm On the Music of Leonard Bernstein and David Amram" - co-sponsored by the Judiac Studies Dept., evening rehearsal of symphony concert of music by Bernstein, Gershwin and Amram; Mar 31, 7:30 PM - Performance of music by Bernstein, Gershwin and Amram and special piece created involving drama and dance students. |
| Apr 7 | - | "Tribute to Lord Buckley". Bowery Poetry Club, New York City. Amram and his trio play and he discusses his accompanying Lord Buckley in his final performance the night before he died in the fall of 1960. |
| Apr 8 | 7:30 PM | Five Towns College, Dix Hills, Long Island - "The Beatles' Magical Orchestra". Young People's Concert introduces the instruments of the symphony orchestra in an authentic recreation of 20 classic Beatles recordings. Amram hosts and conducts the 40-piece orchestra, which includes four folkloric musicians from India. Pre-concert lecture starts at 6:45 PM. Adults $25, Students and Children $15. For information and tickets, call 631-656-2148. |
| Apr 9 | - | An evening of Amram's compositions at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts - chamber music and world music compositions with soloists Kenneth Radnofsky and others TBA. |
| Apr 10 | - | Denver University - Marisco Visiting Professor and Leo Block Distinguished Visiting Professor. Working with students from the biology, English, anthropology, Judaic studies, sociology and music departments. |
| Apr 22 | - | Portsmouth, NH - Jazzmouth music festival. |
| Apr 23 | - | Denver University - Marisco Visiting Professor and Leo Block Distinguished Visiting Professor. Working with students from the biology, English, anthropology, Judaic studies, sociology and music departments. |
| Apr 28 - 30 | - | Brown College, Providence, RI. In residence for performance of Amram's saxophone concerto "Ode to Lord Buckey". Saxophone soloist Andrew Alligretti with the Brown Wind Symphony. Concert Apr 29, 8:PM at Salomon Hall - 19th annual Eric Adam Brudner Memorical Concert. Admission is free and open to the public. Amram will also be doing work with the English Dept. about work with Hunter S. Thompson and Jack Kerouac. The Department of Music will host a seminar by Amrom at 4 PM on the 28th - "Jazz, World Music and Classical Composition". |
| Sat. May 6 | 1:45 PM | David Amram Trio - Musical tribute to Harold Clurman with whom Amram collaborated as musical director at the at the Lincoln Center Theater from 1964 through 1966. 31 W. 27th St., New York City, NY. |
| May 8 - 13 | - | Amram conducts symphony concert. See Amram's schedule online (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader). |
| May 13 | - | AMRAM CONDUCTS CONCERT OF RECONCILIATION IN LATVIA - David Amram has been invited to conduct the Leipaja Symphony in Leipaja Latvia, in a program honoring the contributions of the Jewish community prior to world War II, and the memory of all who perished there. The concert also celebrates the rebirth of the vital new community being formed in 2006, where descendents and the remaining survivors are returning to live. See this link for details. |
| May 15 - 26 | - | University of Denver - see Amram's schedule online (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader). |
| May 23 | 7 - 9 PM | From Kentucky to Colorado: The Literary Legacy of Hunter S. Thompson - readings with music featuring special guests Juan Thompson and Anita Thompson - 454 Sturm Hall, The University of Denver. See this link. Also a special screening of David Amram's Opera of the Holocaust, The Final Ingredient and an evening of his chamber music performed by the Lamont School of Music. |
| May 27 | 9:00 PM | Festival of the Lower East Side - Theater of the New City, New York City, NY. - Amram performs his music. |
| May 29 - Jun 2 | - | University of Denver - see Amram's Denver schedule online (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader). |
| Jun 5 | - | Brooklyn Conservatory honors the life's work of David Amram as their Musician Of the Year. See their website for details. |
| Jun 9 - 11 | - | Amram conducts members of the Austin Symphony at the Kerrville Music Festival's anniversary concert as the closing event of festival. |
| Jun 13 - 19 | - | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and Missa Manhattan for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank Mccourt, and competing new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat" |
| Jun 17 | - | David will be performing at his daughter Adira's wedding, Putnam Valley, NY. |
| Jun 20 | - | Performing at Dennis Duggan memorial service, New York City. |
| Feb 24 | 2-4 pm |
Celebrating On The Road's 50th Year In Words and Music Fresh City Life and the Denver Public Library present David Amram and sociologist Audrey Sprenger, Ph.D, hosting a special retrospective of this past historic year, celebrating how On The Road continues to inspire people to travel the world, write their lives and collaborate artistically. The evening will include music performed by Amram and his Denver based trio (Artie Moore-bass and Tony Black-drums) There will be readings by students participating in the last run of Sprenger's cross-country sociology and documentary making course Jack Kerouac Wrote Here, Crisscrossing America Chasing Cool and Amram's personal and musical reflections on the cultural impact of this important literary anniversary. This event is free, and held at the Central Branch of the Denver Public Library. |
| June 22 - July 2 | - | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and "Missa Manhattan" for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank McCourt, and completing a new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat"
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| June 27 | - | Performing for George Mgdrdichian memorial tribute, New York City |
| July 3 | - | Independence day special. Cornelia St. Cafe - David Amram's trio (Kevin Twigg, drums; John DeWitt, bass) with Alana, Adira and Adam Amram, John Ventemiglia and surprise guests.
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| July 3 - 8 | - | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and Missa Manhattan for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank Mccourt, and competing new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat". |
| July 9 | - | Interview with Danish Journalist Lars Gulin for Danish national jazz journal. |
| July 12 - 16 | - | Amram Family Band - Alana, Adira, and Adam Amram (and David) perform at the 2006 Woodie Guthrie Folk Festival. |
| July 17 - 28 | - | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and "Missa Manhattan" for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank McCourt, and completing a new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat"
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| July 18 | 8 - 11 PM | David Amram and trio - concert to preserve Washington Square Park's historic fountain and surrounding trees with Odetta, Keir Dullea, Mia Dillon, John Venteglima, Malachy McCourt and others - St. Mark's on the Bowery, 10th St. and 2nd Ave., New York City, NY |
| July 19 - 22 | - | Interviews in Jack Kerouac's home town for September 7 2007 radio documentary celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of On the Road. |
| July 23 - 26 | - | Amram performs with small ensemble as musical director and performer for new CD by gospel and jazz ledgend Lil Greenwood, former vocalist with Duke Ellington's orchestra in Mobile, AL. |
| July 28 - 30 | - | Performing at annual Putnam Co. 4-H Fair |
| July 31 - Aug 6 | - | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and Missa Manhattan for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank Mccourt, and competing new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat" |
| Aug 7 | - | Cornelia St. Cafe - "50 Years in Greenwich Village". David Amram's trio (Kevin Twigg, drums; John DeWitt, bass) with Alana, Adira and Adam Amram, John Ventemiglia and surprise guests. |
| Aug 8 - 22 | - | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and "Missa Manhattan" for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank McCourt, and completing a new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat" |
| Aug 23 - 25 | - | Music tribute to Cuban percussionist Candido, Carolina, Puerto Rico.
PUERTO RICO JAZZ FESTIVAL Festival Internacional de Jazz Latino Carolina, Puerto Rico |
| Aug 26 - Sept 2 | - | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and "Missa Manhattan" for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank McCourt, and completing a new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat"
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| Sept 3 | 3pm-4pm | Bradstock Music Festival. West Sayville, Long Island. Featured Performer - David Amram's trio (Kevin Twigg, drums; John DeWitt, bass) with percussionist Adam Amram. |
| Sept 3 | 7pm | Performrong at a Fund Raiser for Malachy Mccourt'd campaign to become governor of New York state |
| Sept 4 | - | Labor Day day special. Cornelia St. Cafe - David Amram's trio (Kevin Twigg, drums; John DeWitt, bass) with Alana, Adira and Adam Amram, John Ventemiglia and surprise guests. Special guest Frank Messina reads Mets/Baseball poetry. Will be filmed for Mets Weekly-SNY. |
| Sept 5 - 8 | - | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and "Missa Manhattan" for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank McCourt, and completing a new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat"] |
| Saturday, Sept 9 | - | Featured Performer, Howl Fest, New York City. Further details TBA. |
| Sept 10 | 9:30 PM | Guest artist with the Tommy Goodman Trio. The Turning Point, 468 Piermont Ave., Piermont, New York. Please make reservations now for the show. Call 845 359-1089. Light food and drinks available. |
| 2006 Sept 17 | 10:am | The Stamford Connecticut Jewish History Society of Lower Fairfield County
The Musical Roots of Bernstein, Gershwin and Copland The shared influence of Dvorak's legacy, traditional Jewish music and Jazz will be demonstrated by Amram. he will also discuss his year as the first-ever Composer-in-Residence with the New York Philharmonic, chosen by Bernstein. |
| 2006 Sept 20 | 8 p.m. | MALACHY MCCOURT FOR GOVERNOR
Symphony Space 95th and Broadway New York City Amram joins a host other supporters, performing at a gala concert celebrating the candidacy of Malachy McCourt for the next Governor of New York State. Tickets available at the Box Office |
| Sept 21-28 | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and "Missa Manhattan" for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank McCourt, and completing a new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat"
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| Sept 28 | 7-11 | MALACHY MCCOURT FOR GOVERNOR
Connely's W.45th St between 6th and 7th Avenues New York City Amram joins the award winning band Black 47 and a host of other supporters, performing at a fundraiser for the candidacy of Malachy McCourt for the next Governor of New York State. Public invited |
| Sept 30 | noon-midnight | PERFORMING WITH WILLIE NELSON AND HIS BAND FOR 10TH TIME AT FARM AID.
Camden NJ Amram joins Willie Nelson and his band for the annual benefit concert for family farmers. All details for tickets are on Farm Aid webpage. |
| Oct 1st | noon until 10 p.m. | FESTIVAL CELEBRATING FREE SPEECH Great Barrington Mass
David Amram and Adam Amram join Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger and others in the first muaic festival celebrating the First Amendment through music and song. Details TBA (search Arlo Guthrie's web page via google.com) |
| Oct 2 | 8:30-11 p.m. | FIFTY YEARS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
Amram and his quartet perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwrights, choregraphers, authors, poets and musicians from the 50's through today's innovative young artists. Surprise guest join Amram and his quartet with Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt,bass and Adam Amram congas. |
| Oct. 5-8 | LOWELL CELEBRATES KEROUAC 29th ANNUAL FESTIVAL
Amram returns with his trio for eight events during the four days of the festival, performing, reading from his book Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouacand accompanying readers with his trio (Kevin Twigg drums John de Witt bass See LCK website for details |
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| Oct.11 | 7 p.m. | HOLOCAUST OUTREACH PROGRAM CONCERT
Safri Hall 36 Battery Place NYC Amram performs his music and also plays with singer Morely and other artists in a program honoring the memory and the music of victims and survivors of the Holocaust. |
| Oct 12 | 7 pm-midnight | LION'S HEAD REUNION
59 Christopher Street Amram performs for a reunion of authors, journalists, musicians and old friends who are returning for the evening to celebrate the historic meeting place in Greenwich Village where artists of all disciplines met to share ideas and good times with one another. The evening will also honor the memory of journalist Dennis Duggan. |
| Oct 15 | 2 p.m. and 4 p.m. | "THE CLASSICAL PLANET" A CELEBRATION OF CLASSICAL MUSIC, DANCE AND SONG OF MIDDLE EASTERN AND EUROPEAN MASTERS
Carmel New York Amram is the featured guest artist with the new ensemble "The Classical Planet founded by viola virtuoso Midhat Serbagi with whom Amram has collaborated for fifty three years. The two Sunday afternoon shows are family concerts which showcase music from Europe's great 18th and 19th century composers, as well as classical music, songs and dances of the Middle East, with dancers, a children's choir and special guests artists. Admission is free. See the "Classical Planet" web page for further details. |
| Oct.16-27 | - | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and "Missa Manhattan" for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank McCourt, and completing a new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat"
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| Oct.22-25 | - | Visiting Artist State University of Potsdam
Three days of classes with Crane School of Music, Sociology Department, and screening of film Pull my Daisywith narration by Jack kerouac and music by David amram, who also appears in the film. |
| Thursday Oct 26th-28 | 2 p.m. | Interview with Pete Seeger and others for PBS
Orlando's Kerouac House Writer's Residence interviews with Pete Seeger in Beacon NY,others in Lowell Massachussets and Amram guiding filming of key places in NYC where artists of the 50's gathered. The first field work for a new documentary film. |
| Oct. 28 | 7 p.m. | BENEFIT FUNDRAISER FOR JOHN HALL FOR CONGRESS
Kent Cliffs NY Amram is featured guest, performIng for fellow musician John Hall who is now running for Congress. (See John Hall's webpage for details) |
| Nov 1st | 8 p.m. | LATIN JAZZ CELEBRATION:FROM PUERTO RICO TO NY
New York Historical Society 72nd and Central Park West NYC Amram joins legendary 85 year old master of Afro-Cuban music Candido and members of the Lincoln Center Afro-CubanJazz Orchestra and bandleader Paul Peress, in a repeat of the tribute concert honoring Candido held in Carolina Puerto Rico this past August during the second annualFestival Internacional de Jazz-Latino Tickets are availabale at the door or by phone. |
| Nov 2 | 7 p.m. | From Cairo to Kerouac - Classics of Jazz, World Music and the Spoken Word
Georgian Court University Lakewood New Jersey Amram and his quartet perform his own compositions as well as works by the jazz masters he has collaborated with over the past 60 years, and his quartet accompanies students reading from the works of Kerouac. There will also be a two hour seminar the following morning on the creative process for the English Department, just prior Amram leaving to go to Columbia U. |
| Nov 3 | 4pm and 8 pm | THE ENDURING VALUE OF KEROUAC'S WORK IN THE NEW MILLENIUM
Seminar held at Columbia University Amram joins Professor Ann Douglas, author Joyce Johnson and scholar Penny Vlagolpoulos in a seminar at 4 p.m. discussing the signifigance of Kerouac's work today, fifty years after the publication of On the Road Amram will recall his pioneering collaborations with Kerouac for the first-ever jazz-poetry readings done in NYC, as well as their collaborations in classical music and with the community of painters and other artists during the Fifties. At 8 p.m. at the West End Bar, where Kerouac went as a student at Columbia in the Forties, there will be readings from Howl and On the Road with students accompanied by Amram and his quartet, who will also perfrom classics of jazz and world music, and be joined by student musicians at the end of the evening for a jam session. |
| Nov 4th | 8 p.m. | Concert for Nyack Arts Center
Performance at a gala starting off the new season at the refurbished Helen Hayes Theater in Nyack New York. See web for further details. |
| Nov 6th | 8:30-11p.m. | FIFTY YEARS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE and 76th Birthday Preview
Amram and his quartet perform music he has composed celebrating half a century of collaborations with playwrights, choregraphers, authors, poets and musicians from the 50's through today's innovative young artists. Surprise guest join Amram and his quartet with Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John Dewitt,bass and Adam Amram congas.also a celebration of his upcoming 76th birthday Nov 17th. |
| Nov 8th | 8 p.m. | A TRIBUTE TO AUTHOR DOC HUMES
Museum of Natural History at the IMAX Theater. Prior to screening of new documentary film "Doc" produced and directed by his daughter Immy Humes. Amram and others discuss the life and times of author Harold Doc Humes, and amram will perfrom music in his honor. |
| Nov 9-10 | 12 noon -midnight | NORTHEAST REGIONAL FOLK ALLIANCE ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Kutchners in Monticello New York Amram joins a panel to play and discuss his 50 years as a champion of World Music and its importance in festival programming throughout the USA and Canada. He will also perform a small concert with his son Adam Amram and perform with young musicians throughout the day and during evening events. |
| Saturday, Nov. 11 | 8:00 PM | Annual Concert of Rememberance of the Holocaust
Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City, NY. Admission free. Performance of Amram's Niggun, the 2nd movement of his symphony Songs of the Soul performed by the Brooklyn Philharmonic for the annual Concert of Rememberance of the Holocaust. |
| nov 12-13 | 7:30-9:30 p.m. | The Jerusalem Perspective: 150 Years of Archaeological Research
Brown University Providence Rhode Island Amram and musicians from Brown College present a program Shared Roots:Middle Eastern Sensibility The music Amram will perform for the opening evening celebrates the shared cultural heritage of both the Israeli and Palestinian scholars attending the conference, showing how the music of the Middle East, like the work discovered by the archeaologists attending the conference, transends politics and reflects the common ties. |
| Nov 15-18 | - | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and "Missa Manhattan" for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank McCourt, and completing a new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat"
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| nov 19 | 2pm-7pm - | FIVE HOUR RADIO SALUTE TO DAVID AMRAM'S 76TH BIRTHDAY OF NOV 17.
Amram will be interviewed live by radio station WKCR in New York by host Charles Blass, and have his symphonic,operatic, film, theater, jazz, latin and world music compositions played as well as talking about the people he has worked with with since his teens throughout the world. He will also read excerpts from his two books Vibrations and Offbeat:Collaborating with Kerouac |
| Nov 20-Dec 31st | - | Continued work composing and orchestrating "Symphonic Variations on a song by Woody Guthrie", and "Missa Manhattan" for narrator, chorus and orchestra with text by author Frank McCourt, and completing a new book "Nine Lives of a Musical Cat"
Some holiday concerts in December TBA. |
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| January 24-Feb3 | Daya and night | WORK COMPOSING NEWLY COMMISSIONED PIANO CONCERTO
Amram works composing his newly commissioned Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, to be premiered January 2009. He will also be completing revisions for the paperback re-issue by Paradigm Publishers of his 2002 memoir Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac due to be re-released in March of 2008 |
| Wednesday April 16 | 2pm (Three events) | 2 to 2:50 PM Orwig Music Department, Room 112
Folk Roots of the Symphonic Masters Students in Advanced Musicianship class see th influence of native musics on the work of Mozart, Beethoven, Thaikovsky, Brahms, Boridin, Dvorak, Bartok, Gershwin and Copland. |
| October 27 | 10-12 a.m. | AMRAM READS FROM HIS NEW BOOK AT ST PETERSBURG TIMES BOOK FAIR
\Amram reads from and signs copies of his new book Upbeat: Nine lives of a Musical Cat He also appears on a panel with author John Leland and photographer Chris felver, discussing his collaborations with author Jack Kerouac fifity years ago. |
| Saturday April 19 | 1 pm and 4 pm | 1PM, Blue State Coffee, 300 Thayer Street, Providence
In Reel/Real Time . Screening of Elia Kazan's The Arrangement Amram will discuss the adventures with director Elia Kazan in 1969 when they searched New York to find Greek and Turkish musicians who could perform in Amram's score, which included symphonic and jazz artists,all designed to give the music the authenticity required to show the contrast which Kazan's novel explored,expressing the principle character's conflicts when combining his old country roots with the New World of the USA. Sociologist Dr. Audrey Sprenger will comment on the Canadian and American way of dealing with ethnicity in societies which stress upward mobility at the expense of dealing with ones own own heritage, since his ws a central theme of the film, modeled on Kazan's own struggles in life. 4PM, Grant Recital Hall Amram discusses the history of composing his cantata, A Year in Our Land,[/]and his work with Jack Kerouac in finding the books to help design its structure of celebrating the four seasons on th American continent, and how he designed the musical composition when setting the texts of James Baldwin, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, Thomas Wolfe, John Steinbeck and Walt Whitman, Excerpts of the cantata will be played. |
| Feb 24 | 2-4 pm | 50 yers |
| March 31st | 2 pm | No More Walls: Bridging the Gap between the Arts, Humanities and
Sciences Through Music: An inter-disciplinary program series with live music Roundtable about Kerouac and the community of artists of all genres from the era of the Fifites, the enduring value of kerouac's work, and how his legacy is relevant to today's young artists. To be hosted by the Library Amram will read from his three books, Vibrations. Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat and Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac and discuss the significance of the 50th anniversary of The Dharma Bums in 2008. Library room 511, 2:00 pm 6-9 pm THE SPONTANIOUS AND THE FORMAL: CREATING YOUR OWN ART (location to be determined) |
| Tuesday October 16 | 4-5 pm | LIVE ON AIR CONCERT FOR RADIO STATION KUVO
Amram and his trio with Tony Black and Artie Moore play live for a fund raiser for Denver's award-winning radio station KUVO. |
| October 16 | 4 pm-5 pm - | AMRAM AND HIS TRIO PLAY LIVE ON AIR CONCERT
Amram, with Tony Black and Artie Moore play a live concert to raise funds for Denver's award winning radio station KUVO. |
| September 10 | 8 pm- | The Influence of Jazz in the Arts and Society
David Amram and Adam Amram give concert at Rivier College in Nashua New Hampshire, showing the influences of Jazz over the past hundred years as well as how its constant evolution reflects our society as well as influencing it. The concert is open to the public. |
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