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| Jan 4th | -8:30-11pm | NEW YEARS CELEBRATION: FIFTY FIVE 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 NYC 8:30 TO 11 PM Between Bleeker and West 4th Street Greenwich Village NYC |
| Jan5-Feb 5th | -Day and night | Writing 4TH book "DAVID AMRAM: THE FIRST 80 YEARS"and composing new orchestral work. Also archiving tapes, videos, photos, writings and recordings for the documentary film "David Amram" The First 80 Years" being made by Larry Kraman of Newport Classic Recordings, and organizing all music for Nov 20th concert at Symphony Space in NYC, celebrating Amram's 80th birthday.
The entire program will be posted shortly. |
| Feb 16 | MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND CLASSICAL SAXOPHONE VIRTUOSO KEN RADNOFSKY PLAY AMRAM'S MUSIC IN BOSTON
The Boston Symphony's Jamie Sommerville, Principal Horn, Richard Svoboda principal bassoon and Ken Radnofsky, concert saxophonist (and also member of the BSO) will be playing Amram's 1958 Trio for Tenor Saxophone, French Horn and Bassoon in a concert to be filmed and recorded by Larry Kraman of Newport Classic Recordings as part of his documentary feature film David Amram: The First 80 Years Ken Radnofsky will also play Amram's Prologue and Scherzo, for Unaccompanied Alto Saxophone well as Gunther Schuller's Sonata for Saxophone [/i} and Erwin Schulhoff 's 'Hot Sonate 8 P.M. at JORDAN HALL BOSTON FREE ADMISSION |
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| Date | Time | Event |
| March 2 | 830 pm-11 | FIFTY YEARS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
Cornelia Street Cafe hosts Amram and his quartet with surprise guests with whom he has collaborated in classical, jazz, Latin American music as well as actors, poets and vocalists. John Ventimiglia, of The Sopranos reads Kerouac, accompanied by Amram, recreating Kerouac and Amram's first public jazz/poetry readings ever given in NYC in 1957. |
| March 4th | Noon -1pm- | A MUSICAL TRIBUTE TO ROBERT FRANK'S SHOW CELEBRATING "THE AMERICANS"
The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC hosts a concert by David Amram, fsaturing his classical compositions Ode to Lord Buckley: a concerto for saxophone and orchestra,(1983) Trio for Saxophone,horn and bassoon(1958) Prelude and Scherzo for unaccmpanied saxophone(1996 )Theme and Variations on Amazing Grace (2007) and a jazz ensemble peformance of the title song Pull my Daisyfom the Robert Frsnk/ Kerouac film for which Amram co-wrote the title song, the score and in which he appeared.He will also discuss his work with Kerouac, Frank and the community of artists in NYC during the 50s in what later became known as the Beat Generation. FREE ADMISSION |
| March 25-26 | day nd night | CELEBRATING THE LEGACY OF JACK KEROUAC IN ORLANDO FLORIDA
Amram does a series of events in Orlando for the Jack Kerouac Writer's Residence, with which he has been involved since it founding. Programs will include the dedication of the grave where Kerouac's sister Caroline Blake is buried, and appearances at Rollins College and readings and concerts with artists and students from the community. |
| March 6th | 3 pm-11 pm | ANNUAL COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HOWL TRIBUTE TO HONOR THE WRITINGS OF JACK KEROUAC AND ALLEN GINSBERG
Amram joins biogapher Bill Morgan,author Joyce Johnson and scholars and students for the third year to celebrate the writings of Columbia alumnae Kerouac and Ginsberg in a series of events, ending with a concert of music from the era as well as accompanying readings and a walking tour of the neighborhood where all the key members of the Beat Generation first met. FREE ADMISSION |
| March 10. | 730-11 pm | THE INFLUENCE OF JAZZ ON THE WRITING OF JACK KEROUAC
Colunmbia University's Department of Jazz Studies hosts a panel with Miles Davis biographer John Szwed, record producer George Avakian, Italian scholar Dr. Sara Villa and Amram, who will also demonstrate the roots of Bluss, early jazz, scat, and the improvising of words and music which became the foundation for rap and hip hop. He will also discuss how he, Kerouac and other classical composers. painters and poets all dealt with the relationship of spontenaity and its relationship to formal works, all of which were influenced by art of jazz on their respective work. |
| March 18 | 5:30-6pm | INTERVIEW AND FUNDRAISER FOR BOULDER COLORADO RADIO STATION KGNU-FM
Amram talks abut his participation aa the composer in residence for The Demcratic National Convention in Denverl last summer as well as his participation in musical events in Colorado over the past fifty years. He will also talk abiut his publisher Paradigm Publishers who are re-releasing his 1968 memoir i] Vibrations this Spring in a new paperback edition to join his other two books Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat and Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac both of he which are published by Paradigm Publishers. Amram will also discuss the importance of radio as a tool for community building and educating present day audiences with the inclusion of music not programmed by corporate stations. |
| March 27 | All day and night | STETSON UNIVERSITY RESIDENCY AS JAMES TURNER BUTLER LECTURER IN DE LANDE FLORIDA
9:00 a.m Meeting with Dean Ballenger and others TBD; 10 - 10:50 Visit to a class of Prof. G. West & H. Blanchard in Presser 132 12:00 noon Lunch with School of Music Professors Syd Hodkinson, Manuel Martinez DeMurga, and Nathan Wolek; 2:30 - 3:30 Creativity, Spontanaity and Discipline: How to enrich your life and your community using these basic musical principals in everyday activities [/] -Open to the campus community and to the public. Location: McMahan Hall 3:30 - 4:00 Meeting with School of Music composition students. Location: Presser Room 112 5:15 Dinner with James Turner Butler Donor Committee and guests; 7:30 Student Composer Concert; program forthcoming Location: Lee Chapel, Elizabeth Hall; Stetson campus 10:00 Discussion with students, faculty and members of the community of how we can all make a contribution by using our education throughout our lives and interacting with people from different disciplines to educate ona another. |
| March 28 | -7 pm til midnight | SECOND ANNUAL LITERARY BEAT FESTIVAL:SPONTANITY AND FORMALITY
Presented by Bellamy Road (David Turner Warner Foundation, Inc.) 5910 Hampton St. Melrose, Fl 32666 TEL (352) 475-3435 for all information. Amram screens and discusses the chaotic creation of the Robert Frank/Kerouac narrated classic Beat documntary film Pull My Daisy for which Amram composed the score, co-wrote the title song, with lyrics by Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. Amram also appeared in the film. He will perform jazz and world music classics and demonstrate the roots of hip hop and rap, showing how spontanious scat rhyming was a part of the Era and now has become free-styling. He will also play excerpts of a recording of his concerto for flute and orchestra "Giants of the Night" written for Sir James Galway and dedicated to Charlie Parker, Kerouac and Dizzy Gillespie, all of whom Amram performed with, and all of whom also combined Sponteaity and Formality in their work. |
| April 21 | all day | AMRAM ARTIST IN RESIDENCE AT WARD MELVILLE HIGHCHOOL MUSIC FESTIVAL
Amram returns to one of Long island's repmiere public schools. where he first appeared in 1974, to spend the day working with the student Wind Symphony, jazz band, composition, theory and orchestration students, creative writing students and appear as guest solist that evening in a concert featuring his orchestral work In Memory of Chano Pozo Hw will also solo in a composition of Dizzy Gillespie's with the student jazz ensemble. Admission is Free. |
| April 23-26 | Day and night | ANNUAL JAZZMOUTH FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND POETRY
Amram returns for the fifth consecutive year to Portsmouth New Hampshire for concerts, readings from his books and performances with musicians featuring Mose Allison, Bob Durough, poet Donald Hall, the Larry Simon Ensemble and artists from around the country and overseas. All events are listed on the webpage of Jazzmouth. The festival is from Thursday thru Sunday. |
| April 30 | 8-11 pm | RECORD WITH MARLON SOBOL
Amram records with Marlon Sobol.leader fo [1] shem's Disciplesfor a new CD of Sobol's in Ardsley New York. |
| May 3rd | 7-11 pm | PETE SEEGER 90TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
Amram performs with the Native American Indian Cultural Alliance in a four hour tribute to Pete Seeger with 45 groups including Bruce Springsteen, John Melloncamp. Dave Matthews, Emmy Lou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Baez, Richie Havens and a stellar cast, all listed on Seeger90.com All proceeds go to the Clearater Foundation. See Amram's tribute to his 50 ear riendship with Seeger on Amraam's home page. |
| May 4th | 8:30-11pm | FIFTY YEARS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
Cornelia Street Cafe hosts Amram and his quartet with surprise guests with whom he has collaborated in classical, jazz, Latin American music as well as actors, poets and vocalists. John Ventimiglia, of The Sopranos reads Kerouac, accompanied by Amram, recreating Kerouac and Amram's first public jazz/poetry readings ever given in NYC in 1957. Amram's quartet of Kevin Twigg drums,John de Witt bass and Adam Amram congas has other musicians and singers joining him. |
| May 21 | !2:so noon | 28th ANNUAL AMERICAN EAGLE AWARDS
This year's event, sponsored by the American Music Council, honors Quincy Jones and Herbie Hancock for their contributions to music education and the use of music as an ambassador to the world. Bill Cosby is the host. Amram was the presenter for last years award to Maestro Loren Maazel, conductor of the New York Philharmonic, Amram just completed a video for the American Music Council, demonstrating music as a way of transcending political differences and promoting understanding between nations and cultures throughout the world. The Edison Ballroom 240 West 47th Street, 12:30 noon |
| May 5-22 | DAY AND NIGHT | AMRAM COMPLETES NEW FORWARD TO THE NEW REISSUE OF HIS 1968 MEMOIR "VIBRATIONS"
Amram has been asked to write a Prelude for a new edition of his 1968 memoir "Vibrations to be released by Paradigm publishers in the Fall of 2009, in conjunction with his other two books [l] Offbeat:Collaborating with Kerouac and his latest book Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat All three books represent a trilogy and are being used as course materials in many colleges and universities. |
| MAY 23 | 5 -6:30 PM | [bCELEBRATION OF GRAMMY AWARD FOR PETESEEGER'S NEW RECORDING
Amram attends and plays as paft of a musical celebration in Beacon New York, hosted by David Bernz, producer of the Grammy award winning album of Pete Seeger's latest recording. Amram will play on the current recording being made by Seeger, followng the Madison Square Garden tribute for his 90th birthday. |
| May 23 | 9:30 pm | EIGHTH ANNUAL APPEARANCE AT THE FESTIVAL OF THE LOWER EAST SIDE
Amram returns to perform at the Theater of the New City's annual Festival of the Lower East Side, honoring the continuing history of one of New York's centers of creativity over the past hundred years. Admission is Free Go on line for details of this innovative three day festival. |
| May 25-28 | Day and Night | RECORDING AMRAM DOCUMENTARY FOR NEWPORT CLASSIC FILMS
Amram performs his music, and is interviewed in Newport Rhode Island, for Larry Krayman's ongoing documentary film to be completed Nov 17 2010 for Amram's 80th birthday. He also is recording narrations, as the host of a new series of short musical bio-sketches filmed in the late 40s and early 50s. The groups include bands led by Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, Erskine Hawkins, Cab Calloway, jimmy Dorsey and other gifted artists of the era. In addition, he is doing the first in a series of recordings of readings from his three books, "Vibrations,"' "Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac" and "Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat," to be released as a Spoken Word album by Newport Classic Recordings on I-Tunes. |
| May 30,31 | -Day and night | A WEEKEND WITH DAVID AMRAM AT THE BROOKLYN CONSERVATORY
Saturday, May 30, 2009, 8 pm AND Sunday, May 31, 2009, 5pm. Amram leads a variety of ensembles performing his chamber music, choral music, jazz, Latin American and world music works, including classical compositions inspired by Native American traditional music. This is his second appearance at the Conservatory, which honored him two years ago for his 29 years as Director of Free Parks, Community and Young People's concerts, which he conducted at BAM with the Brooklyn Philharmonic. The conservatory presented him with an award from the Boro President and it was declared David Amram Day in Brooklyn.. PROGRAM OF EVENTS Saturday May 30, 8pm Amram's Jazz, Latin, Film, Poetry and World Music compositions Theme from "Splendor In The Grass" Kwahare (from Kenya. a sing-a-long in Swahli) Home on The Range Birds of Montparnasse The Foxhunt from Cork Meets the Blues from New York Gracias Amigos Readings from "On the Road" with John Ventimiglia of "the Sopranos" reading the poetry of Jack Kerouac with Amram's music, celebrating their collaborations in 1957 for the first public jazz/poetry readings ever given in NYC. Artists: David Amram, the Jazz & gospel Choir, Renee Manning voice, Earl McIntyre bass trombone, Kevin Louis trumpet, Cleave Guyton reeds, Patience Higgins reeds, Doug Booth keyboards, Jerome Harris bass, Hasan Bakr percussion, Sunday May 31, 3-4pm FREE Simple roots of string improvisation (for students of the Suzuki method) Sunday May 31, 5pm - Chamber music inspired by Native American music and American roots music. The Indian Prayer by Victorio Roland Mousaa, performed for the opening at Madison Square Garden's celebration of Pete Seeger's 90th birthday. Native American Portraits for violin, piano and percussion Sioux Rabbit Song (Mastinchila Wachipi Olwan) Traditional Lakota round dance melody and Song for Machito for children's choir, premiered at the Democratic National Convention '08. Giants of the Night (slow movement of flute concerto written for Sir James Galway, in memory of Jack Kerouac) Artists: David Amram, Victorio Roland Mousaa guitar and voice, Masha Lankowsky violin, David Wexler flute, Heidi Uptown piano, Nathan Davis percussion, Hasan Bakr percussion, K.P.I Children's Choir directed by Renee Manning |
| June 1st | 8:30-11 p.m. | FIFTY YEARS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
Amram's quartet with Kevin Twigg, drums, John Dewitt, bass and Adam Amram, drums are joined by guest artists John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos, singers Morley Kamen, Lodi Carr and Ekayani, and songriter/singers Alana and Adira Amram for a special night to be filmed as part of the documentary film by Larry Krayman being ma about Amram's life. Musical selections will include compositions by Amram based on his collaborations in the Greenwich Village over the past half century with Arthur Miller, Jack Kerouac, Charles Mingus, Elia Kazan, Joseph Papp and many of today's young creative artists. |
| June2-7 | Day and Night | GUEST COMPOSER/PERFORMER AT THE 41st Annual INTERNATIONAL HORN SYMPOSIUM
Amram will conduct seminars and host events leading several hundred French horn players in learning the fundamentals of playing jazz and improvising, as well as how to collaborate with and create accompaniments for poets,dancers, actors and musicians of all genres, as well as creating original music for ensembles not familiar with the French horn's many possibilities. He will also be in attendance to describe the process of composing some of his best known works for French horn,including a live performance of his Horn Concerto,to be played by virtuoso hornist Richard Todd. He will also speak about the process of composing a new piece, and how improvising can help to inspire formal cmpositions, before performances of his "Trio for horn, tenor Sax and bassoon" and his "Blues for Monk" for solo French horn. And he will try to encourage all the hornists who attend the symposium to also compose for the concert hall. theater , films and dance, conduct and write about their experiences, as they continue to pursue their traditional classical careers. Details of the entire event are listed on line It is hosted in Macomb Illinois by.... Randall E. Faust, D.M.A. Professor of Music-Western Illinois University Hornist--The Camerata Woodwind Quintet and LaMoine Brass Quintet www.wiu.edu/horn |
| June 14 | 5:30 |
Screening of the new documentary film The Frontier Gandhi: Badshah Khan, A Torch For Peace Produced and directed by Teri McLuhan Musical score composed and conducted by Amram Presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Theater at 5:30 p.m. This dramatic documentary, shot in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan by Teri McLuhan for the past 21 years, tells the extraordinary tale of Muslim peacemaker Badshah Khan, a reformer who helped shape India's modern political, social and spiritual landscape. Born into Pashtun warrior society, Khan managed to raise a nonviolent army of 100,000 men, women, and youngsters as he struggled for India |
| June 15 | 6-11 pm | CARNEGIE HALL GALA FOR JUVENILE LAW CENTER, HONORING THEO BIKEL'S 85TH BIRTHDAY
Amram joins Alan Alda, Arlo Guthrie, Judy Collins, Barbara Cook, Susan Werner.The Klezmatics and many other artists from the music world and Broadway stage for a celebration of the work and life of Theo Bikel. The Juvenile Law Center's mission is advancing the rights and well-being of children in jeopardy. June 15tth 8 pm Carnegie Hall |
| June 21 | 8-10 pm | DAVID AMRAM LEADS HUNDREDS OF MUSICIANS IN AN AMRAM JAM IN CENTRAL PARK
AS THE GRAND FINALE OF CITYWIDE FREE CONCERTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY Amram has been selected by Make Music New York, Inc., to conduct and organize a grand finale after a day of free performances throughout the city. He will lead hundreds of players in a group performance based on the 12 bar blues, with audience participation, and everyone who attends is invited to bring an instrument. By organizing a SIMPLE basis for group playing, a long piece will be done, with players and each of their individual styles incorporated reflecting the diversity of musical idioms of New York City, with all playing together in a harmonious gathering. Parents are encouraged to bring their children, and children are encouraged to bring their parents and friends for a joyous night of free music in Central Park FREE ADMITTANCE at CENTRAL PARK SUMMER STAGE For further details, access www.makemusicny.org For the office of Make Music New York call 917-779-9709 |
| July 6 | CONCERT FOR FACE TO FACE/ FAITH TO FAITH
Young people from around the world learn about conflict resolution with music as on way to achieve understanding and fellowship. Musical artists include Lakota musician/speaker Tiokasin Ghost Horse and Amram, who will play duets, solo pieces and speak to the sixty young people about global consciousness and the importance of broadening cultural horizons. The event takes place at the Social Hall at Union Theological Seminary 121st and Broadway in NYC |
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| July 8-12 | Day and Night | WOODYFEST THE ANNUAL WOODY GUTHRIE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Amram returns for the fifth consecutive year to Okema Oklahoma with his son drummer Adam Amram to perform a solo concert Saturday night and be guest soloist with several other ensembles. He will also accompany Oklahoma poets, creating music for their readings. Woody Guthrie's granddaughter will include excerpts of Amram's orchestral work Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie which was commissioned by the Guthrie Fondation, in a presentation of Guthrie's legacy and the continued influence his work engenders today in many forms of new music. Admission is free. Events take place throughout Okema, Guthrie's home town. |
| July 13 | INTERVIEW WITH FRENCH JOURNALIST FROM "LE MONDE" FOR NEW BIOGRAPHY OF GREAT JAZZ BASSIST OSCAR PETTIFORD
French journalist Paul Benkimoun interviews Amram from Paris for the first full biography of master bassist and band leader Oscar Pettiford. Amram played and recorded with Pettiford's band from 1956-1958. He will discuss Oscar's Native American heritage which Pettiford shared with Amram, and the adventures during tours and musical barriers which Oscar transcended during his unique career. Amram will also explain why Pettiford's used of two French horns with Julius Watkins and Amram and the inclusion of a harp and Pettiford himself playing jazz cello, all of which were part of his band, And how this unusual addition to the standard big band instrumentation was part of Pettiford's dream of creating a symphonic sound using jazz roots. |
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| July 20-22 | SPOKEN WORD RECORDINGS OF AMRAM'S THREE BOOKS FOR NEW PORT CLASSIC RECORDINGS AND PARADIGM PUBLISHERS
Amram will read from his three books as well as work ona new documentary film about his life to be released Nov of 2010 for his 80th birthday. All of this is being done by Larry Kraman, cofounder of Newport Classic Recordings, with the Spoken Word excerpts from the books to be put up on I=Tunes, along with new recordings of Amram's classical and chamber works. Amram and his daughter Alana will also give a live performance at an event in Newport during the three days of recording. |
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| July 23 | 2-4 pm | INTERVIEW FOR FILMING OF NEW DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM ABOUT GREENWICH VILLAGE FROM THE 40's UNTIL 1960
Amram speaks, reads from his three books, and recounts experiences working with Charles Mingus, composing music for the theater, for plays by Arthur Miller and Shakespeare in the Park. He will also talk about his first public jazz/poetry readings ever held in NYC, with author Jack Kerouac and the community of poets, painters, and artists of all genres who formed a loosely knit community which supported one another. Amram is joined in the film by Pete Seeger, Arthur Miller and many other artists who frequented the Village during this era and who are still prolific today. |
| July 24-26 | all Dayy | AMRAM HONORED AS HONORARY CHAIRMAN, CELEBRATING HIS 25TH YEAR AS A VOLUNTEER FOR THE ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY 4-H FAIR
Amram is awarded for his twenty five years of performing music, roasting corn at the Farmers Stand and bringing animals to the Putnam County 4-H Fair. In addition to playing the Star Spangled Banner for opening ceremonies, he and his staff of volunteers roast 2000 ears of corn and his quartet performs a world music concert at 2 PM Sunday the 26th. Putnam County Park 10 am to 6 PM FREE ADMISSION |
| July 25 | 8 -10 pm | AMRAM JOINS DAUGHTER ALANA AMRAM AND HER BAND "ROUGH GEMS" AS A FEATURED GUEST
IN A COMMUNITY CONCERT PRESENTED BY ARTS ON THE LAKE Amram plays with his daughter Alana and her band "Rough Gems" During the evening, she will be joined by performances by her brother Adam Amram, sister Adira Amram and mother Loralee Ecobelli, in a night of songs from Alana's latest album. |
| August 1st | MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR GEORGE KAST HELD IN DAVIS PARK LONG ISLAND
Amram performs and speaks at a public memorial for George Kast, an old friend of fifty years from New York City. Contact Davis Park ferry in Patchogue long island for details |
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| August 5th | AMRAM PERFORMS AT 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF UNIVERSAL PEACE DAY IN NYC
Amram joins fellow musicians Toshiko Akiyohi, Lew Tabackin, Guy Davis, Morley Kamen and survivors of Hiroshima and religious leaders from many faiths in an annual ceremony dedicated to international understanding and universal peace. The event is held at the Church of St. Paul & St. Andrew 263 West 86th street Admission is free. . |
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| August 8th | AMRAM'S TRIO PERFORMS AT THE THIRD ANNUAL OUTDOOR PEEKSKILL JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL 2009
Amram is one of the headliners for this annual free concert celebrating American roots music. Having presented the first Aaron Copland Celebration of American Music conducting the Brooklyn Philharmonic years ago at the Paramount Theater in Peekskill, Amram returns to Peekskill for this new community outdoor festival, held on Division Street for several thousand people, in downtown Peekskill New York. Admission is free, for all ages. |
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| August 14 | 10 pm | AMRAM JOINS DAUGHTER ALANA AMRAM AND HER BAND "ROUGH GEMS" AS A FEATURED GUEST IN NEW YORK
Amram plays with his daughter Alana and her band "Rough Gems" in his old neighborhood form the 50s in New York City. During the evening, Amram will do some of his folkloric compositions as well as accompanying alana in a night of songs from her l latest album. 10 pm show at Banjo Jim's at 9th Street and Ave C. |
| August 17 AND 18 | Day and night - | FILMNG FOR NEW DOCUMENTARY AND RECORDING SPOKEN WORD EXCERPTS FROM AMRAM'S THREE BOOKS FOR NEWPORT CLASSIC RECORDINGS AND PARADIGM PUBLISHERS
Amram will read from his three books as well as work on the new documentary film about his life to be released Nov of 2010 for his 80th birthday. All of this is being done by Larry Kraman, cofounder of Newport Classic Recordings, with the Spoken Word excerpts from the books to be put up on I=Tunes, along with new recordings of Amram's classical and chamber works. |
| Aug18-Sept 3 | -Day and night | COMPOSE NEW ORCHESTRAL WORK AND EDIT APPENDIX FOR NEW EDITION OF His 1968 Memoir VIBRATIONS
Amram finishes the Appendix for the new paperback re-issue of Vibrations for Paradigm Publishers. This new edition os scheduled for Fall release. He will also sork on a new classical concert composition. |
| September 4 | 8 -11 p.m. | GOODWILL CONCERT FOR ARTS AND EDUCATION IN HUDSON VALLEY AT THE PARAMOUNT THEATER IN PEEKSKILL NEW YORK
Amram joins Roy Hatnes, Randy Weston, Ruby Dee and other outstanding artists and speakers from the Eastern Seaboard who are all participating at the Paramount Theater in Peekskill New York, in a benefit concert, to raise money for educational programs and for funds to make the arts available for young people in the area. Singer-actor and civil rights pioneer Paul Robeson, will be honored during the concert for the sacrifices he made during his struggles for his First Amendment Rights in the 1940s Consult the Paramount Theater's website for details. |
| Sept 6 | 2-3 pm | BRADSTOCK XIV THE ANNUAL LABOR DAY CONCERT
Amram returns for the tenth consecutive time to the Bradstock Festival in West Sayville Long Island for their annual event, 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, readings of Jack kerouac with music and Amram's own compositions. |
| September 7 | 8:30-11 pm | 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 Cornelia Street Cafe Greenwich Village NYC (Located on Cornelia Street between Bleeker and West 4th St) |
| Sept 10 | CELEBRATION OF 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF WOODSTOCK MUSIC FESTIVAL IN NYC
Amram will play his own instrumental versions of three compositions which were performed by Janis Joplin and joan Baez at Woodstock in 1969. The evening is a fund raiser for the Max's Kansas City Foundation, in conjunction with ASCAP and RetroFest, to support opportunities for today's young musicians. The evening will be at the Triad Theater in Manhattan NYC See web for details |
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| September 13 | BENEFIT CONCERT FOR JACQUES D'AMBOISE NATIONAL DANCE INSTITUTE
Amram performs at a fund raiser for The National Dance Instutute. Amram was the composer and conductor for three seasons with the company, and has been commissioned to write a new piece for their 2010 season. The details of the program, time and place can be accessed on the National Dance Institute's webpage. |
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| September 14 | 8:30 pm | AMRAM JOINS JOHN McEUEN TO CELEBRATE STEVE MARTIN'S NEW RECORDING "THE CROW"
Amram will be a featured guest with banjo virtuoso/songwriter/film composer and band leader John McEuen for a rare New York appearance by MsEuen. They have toured together and McEuen, who produced Steve Martin's new CD "The Crow", invited Amram to perform on the recording. The evening of music and song takes place at The City Winery 155 Varick Street (between Spring and Vandam Streets) New York 10013 (212) 608-0555 or info@citywinery.com |
| September 21 and 23 | AMRAM PERFORMS AND SPEAKS AT ANNUAL HAROLD CLURMAN FESTIVAL SEPT 21 and 23
Amram will perform as well as being a panelist with artists and educators, honoring the work of Maxine Greene, and her philosophy of expanding the Social Imagination in public schools as well as universities. For all further information, contact Nina Capelli The Stella Adler Studio of Acting 1949 to 2009: Celebrating 60 years of inspiration 31 W. 27th St., 3rd Fl. New York, NY 10001 (212)689-0087, ext. 27 (212)689-6110 fax nina@stellaadler.com www.stellaadler.com |
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| Sept 24-30 | AT HOME COMPOSING NEW PIECE AND BEGINNING FOURTH BOOK
Amram works on new composition and gathers materials for his new book, prior to travels for concerts and appearances. |
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| October 1-3 | day and night- | AMRAM RETURNS TO THE ANNUAL LOWELL CELEBRATES KEROUAC FESTIVAL
Amram gives a series of concerts of jazz, chamber music, accompanies young poets, as he did with Kerouac in the 1950s at Lowell's annual festival. Conductor Kay Roberts will lead members of the New England Chamber Orchestra in a program of Amram;s music celebrating the early collaborations of Kerouac and his boyhood friend, poet Sebastian Sampas. The theme for the festival will be the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Kerouac's "Doctor Sax" Amram cannot do his traditional Sunday Amram Jam since he has to drive from Lowell at midnight Saturday night after his final concert to catch a 6 a.m. flight from NYC to St. Louis to play Farm Aid with Willie Nelson Sunday afternoon. See the Lowell Celebrates Kerouac website for complete programming details. |
| October 4 | noon until midnight | AMRAM RETURNS TO PLAY WITH WILLIE NELSON FOR ANNUAL FARM AID CONCERT
Amram rejoins Willie Nelson and his band in St. Louis, for the fifteenth time to play this year's Farm Aid concert, created to assist family farmers to survive. All details of the concert are on the Farm Aid website |
| Oct 5 2009 | 8:30=11 pm | FIFTY YEARS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
Amram and his quintet (Kevin Twigg, drums and glockenspiel, John de Witt, bass, Adam Amram congas and Elliot Pepper, bongos) play music created since the mid `1950s by Amram for classical concert works, operas, jazz, theater , film and dance. Guest artist John Ventimiglia of "The Sopranos" recreates the first-ever jazz/poetry readings presented in NYC in 1957 by Jack Kerouac and Amram. Singer Morley Kamen and poets John Petrolino and Frank Messina also perform. Cornelia St Cafe, Greenwich Village 8:30 -11pm |
| Oct 6 2009 | 5-7 pm | "REMEMBERING FRANK MCCOURT" A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE FOR AUTHOR FRANK MCCOURT
Amram performs at a memorial tribute to author Frank McCourt at Symphony Space, 95th and Broadway in NYC from 5-7 pm Members of his family, including his brothers Malachy, Alphie and Mike, his daughter Maggie, author William Kennedy, musician Mick Maloney, former students and life long friends will all participate. The entire memorial is being filmed. |
| Oct 7 2009 | 6-8 pm | THELONIOUS MONK AUTHORIZED BIOGRAPHY BY ROBIN KELLY IS HONORED BY THE MONK FAMILY
Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original is having its official book launch, presented by Monk's authorized biographer and prize winning author Robin D.G Kelley, the Monk family and Free Press, a division of Simon and Schuster. Amram was interviewed extensively for the book and has been associated with Thelonious and his son T.S. Monk since 1955. St Marks Church In-the-Bowery 131 East 10th St NYC 6-8 p.m. |
| October 11-18 | day and night . | AMRAM PARTICIPATES IN MIDDLE EASTERN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IN ABU DHABI
Amram attends the annual Middle Eastern International Film Festival as the composer of the score for Teri McLuhan's documentary feature film The Frontier Ghandi In addition to participating in panels, playing with local musicians and speaking after the screenings of The Frontier Ghandi , Amram will also give a master class for students, film makers and members of the United Arabic Emirates musical community. which is entitled "50 years of Musical Creation: From New Orleans Jazz to the Egyptian Hijaz" Amram will discuss the musical roots he used in his classic film scores for Frank Sinatra's 1962 "The Manchurian Candidate," Elia Kazan's "Splendor in the Grass" and his new score for Teri McLuhan's The Frontier Ghandi'" as well as his most recent symphonic works for the concert hall. He will demonstrate how much of his work in many idioms reflects his broad interest and participation in the tradtional folkloric music of all the places he has appeared as a composer/conductor/performer and author during the past 50 years. Amram will also demonstrate many of the instruments he learned to play during his world travels, and how over the years he has continued to absorb the many genres of what is now called World Music, decades before that term became fashionable. From playing jazz French horn with Dizzy Gillespie in Cuba, conducting his own operas and concertos in New York City, playing the shanai and dumbek in Cairo Egypt and the Husai in Chendu China, Amram will show how he drew upon these various idioms of folkloric music and combined them with both the Western classical symphonic traditions and the discipline and spontaneity of jazz and middle eastern music. He will also encourage all students to tap into their own creativity and explore the values of their own traditions as well as those they can learn about when traveling abroad. |
| Oct 22-25 | dy and night | PERFORMANCE OF AMRAM'S SAXOPHONE CONCERTO "ODE TO LORD BUCKLEY"
Saturday night October 25, The Loudoun Symphony of Virginia under the direction of Mark Allen McCoy and saxophone soloist Noah Getz perform Amram's concerto for saxophone and orchestra Ode to Lord Buckley the featured work in a concert entitled New Beginnings. New World The program also includes works by Leonard Bernstein and Dvorak. Prior to the Saturday night concert, Amram will attend rehearsals, give seminars and appear at the Rust Library Friday October 24 from 3-5 pm, speaking and performing and other venues in the area. The enitre residency as well as the concert is being filmed by Larry Kraman for the forthcoming documentary feature film David Amram: The First 80 years See www.loudounsymphony.org for further details |
| Oct 26 | 6:30-10pm | AMRAM PERFORMS AT THE PRESENTATION OF THE 2009 MEDAL OF HONOR FOR MUSIC AWARDED TO PAQUITO D'RIVERA
Amram will speak and perform at a gala honoring composer/ musical virtuoso/author Paquito D'Rivera. The National Arts Club will present D'Rivera with the 2009 Medal of Honor. The program will include Dave Brubeck, Barbara Carroll, Jon Faddis, James Moody, Sir George Shearing, Dr. Billy Taylor, Roberta Gambarini and Brenda Feliciano. Paquito's classical and jazz compositions will be performed as well as a jam session at the end of the evening. Amram and D'Rivera first collaborated in the Spring of 1977 for the historic first-ever US/Cuban musical exchange, the first one since the revolution, when the Carter administration sanctioned the good will trip to Cuba with the bands of Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Getz, Earle Hines and Amram, all four of whom performed in Havana with Cuban artists. S'Rivera and Amram have collaborated over the years since then, from 1981 through 2009 in recordings and concerts in the U.S.A. National Arts Club NYC 15 Grammercy Park South 6:30 p.m. |
| Nov 3-4 | AMRAM PERFORMS IN TORONTO FOR THE ANNUAL CANADIAN DIASPORA FESTIVAL
Amram returns to Toronto for the Canadian premiere Oct 4th of Teri McLuhan's prize winning feature documentary film The Frontier Ghandi for which Amram composed the score.The film was just awarded first prize as the Best Feature Documentary film at the Middle Eastern International Film Festival in Abu Dhab, by a panel of international jurors. Nov 1st, Amram performs with israeli and Palastinian poets in a program of reconciliaition through the arts. Nov 3rd, the evening before the Canadian premiere of the film , Amram will perform at a special event for the Diaspora Festival. at a concert he created for the occasion, entitled....... At Home Around the World / A Musical Mosaic in the spirit of the Diaspora With David Amram and Friends. The evening concert will include classic selections of music from the worlds of Jazz, Blues, Middle Eastern, Native Canadian, Quebecois, the British Isles, Irish, Afro Cuban and Chinese music, as well as music from the Middle East and South Asia. The core group for the evening will be Deb Sinha drums and percussion, David Woodhead bass and Amram playing shanai, dumbek, Halil. Tambour, Lakota courting flute, Irish whistles, piano and French horn. Guest soloists will include Leigh Cline playing Greek and Turkish folkloric instruments, Alana Cline playing Celtic fiddle and other surprise artists. The event has been facilitated through the participation of Small World Music. It will be held at The Revival 783 College Street West from 8-10 PM Nov 3rd. See Diaspora Film Festival on line for further details. |
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| Nov 8th | afternoon | FILMED INTERVIEW FOR DOCUMENTARY ABOUT WBAI-FM'S BOB FASSE THE PIONEER OF FREE FORM RADIO
Amram is interviewed about his 50 year associaition with Radio Un-nameable host Bob Fasse, a pioneer of radio techniques which are now used world wide. The film will document Fasse's historic shows with performers like Bob Dylan Arlo Guthrie, Jerry Jeff Walker whose music he championed whrn they were unknown. The film documents archival broadcasts and live interviews scores of others , from every field of the arts and politics, including Amram, and is constructed to chronicle a social history of Nw York from the late 1950s to the present day. |
| Nov 12th 2009 | AMRAM FILMED FOR SERIES FILMING LIVING COMPOSERS DISCUSSING THEIR WORK
Amram is filmed discussing how he composed two of most rent major symphonic compositions Kokopelli: A symphony in Three Movements and Symphonic Variations on a Dpng by Woody Guthrie The videos which include recordings of the music also have Amram's narration and demonstartions of the folk influendes and how he incor[orated them into a symphonic context. The DVD's of all the composers who are being filmed will be sent to thrty outstanfing music schools thrughout the country as a teahing tool for emerging composers. Retired television executive Tom Knott, formerly of CNN, and a music major while at Notre Dame, is sponsoring the entire series as a way of fosterung creativity for a new generation of composers and documenting the more established ones so that their work and methedology can be included in formal academic studies and inspire younger composes to find their own voices. |
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| Nov 13 | 1-3am | RADIO TRIBUTE TO ART D'LUGOFF FOUNDER OF THE VILLAGE GATE
Amram joins other artists in honoring the late Art dLugoff, founder of the Village Gate, civil rights activist and innovative producer for sixty years of theatrical and music al events that were a hall mark of New York's cultural life. The program on Pacifica Radio flagship station WBAI fm will be streamed internationally to honor d'lugoff's lasting contributons to the performing arts. |
| Nov 14 |
INTERVIEW FOR DUTCH NATIONAL RADIO DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE NEW AWARENESS OF BHUDDISM IN THE 50s Amram is interviewed for a new docuntary program 'Beat & Buddha' sponsored by the Dutch Public Broadcasting organisation BOS. Amram will discuss his artistic collaborations as well as his friendship with author Jack Kerouac and recount Kerouac's embrace of modern Bhuddism while retaining his Catholic roots and attending church. Amram will also recount the admiration all in his generation shared for poets Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen, who were the two who were truly versed in the religion, and how Kerouac and most others never were part of what became a New Age merchandising and misrepresentation of Bhuddism and all things spiritual in the 60s. |
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| Nov 15 | AMRAM ATTENDS PERFORMANCE OF HIS PIANO SONATA {1960)
Pianist Cynthia Peterson will perform as Amram's Piano Sonata, composed in 1960, and aram will speak to the audience about this early work and how he came to compose it. The concert is part of the Chappaqua Concert Artist Series, The recital will also include chamber works of Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, and Morton Gould. Admission is FREE and the concert is held at the Chappaqua Library Auditorium, 195 S. Greeley Avenue, Chappaqua, NY |
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| Nov 16 | AMRAM CELEBRATES BECOMING 79 ON THE BANDSTAND WITH JOHN McEUEN AND FRIENDS
Banjo and fiddle virtuoso, film composer and raconteur John McEuen, founder of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, has invited Amram to join him, to celebrate Amram's 79h birthday, which officially starts at midnight. McEuen and Amram toured with violinist Vassar Clemmens in a program called Three Jammin' Gents and McEuen invited Amram to perform on Steve Martin;s recent album The Crow which McEuen produced. Joining for the evening's celebration will be Native American singer/songwriter Martha Redbone, banjo ace Cynthia Sayer, bluegrass singer Jen Larsen and members of the bands Railroad Earth and New York's Tin Pan Band. Cake will be served after midnight when Nov 17th officially arrives. The City Winery is located at 155 Varick Street NYC Show begins at 9 pm |
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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. |
| January 24-Feb3 | 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 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 | 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 was 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. |
| April 20 | all day - | Sunday, April 20
1 PM, Nine Lives of a Musical Cat A concert for children and parents,held at the Pawtucket Congregational Church 40 Walcott St, Pawtucket. Based on David Amram's latest book, with Amram performing music from around the world, sponsored by the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra & Music School; and the Pawtucket Armory Arts Exchange. 5 PM Road Diaries and Crisscrossing the Country, Chasing Cool Held at Blue State Coffee 300 Thayer Street, Providence, amram will be joined by Dr. Audrey Sprenger and describe their 2007 cross country trip re-tracing Kerouac's journey of 50 years ago,reading articels which they wrote for the Village Voice's on-line commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of Kerouac's On the Road. This will be followed by a screaning of Pull My Daisy, The classic short film narrated by Kerouac, with Amram's score and a cast including Ginsberg, Corso,Larry Rivers and Amram himself. 7:00 PM Screening of Splendor in The Grass followed by a discussion with Dr. Audrey Sprenger , Part Three of In Reel/Real Time. |
| April 21 | 8 -10:30 pm | 8 PM Aurea Meets Amram .
the prize winning chamber music emnsemble Aurea performs some of Amram's most significant chamber music as well as songs and narration with concert music set with the words of william Shakespeare and Jack Kerouac. The performance is at Grant Recital Hall Performers include Charles Sherba, violin; Consuelo Sherba, viola; Emmanuel Feldman, cello; Rachel Broude, flute; George Lopez, piano; Chris Turner, harmonica; Nigel Gore, reader; David Amram, piano, percussion, improvisations. the concert is followed by an interview moderated by award winning radio journalist Christopher Lydon. |
| April 22 | day and night |
10:30 to noon , Orwig Room 112, Amram is guest lecturer for Profesor Shapiro's orchestration class, and describes his work woth the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, and the challenges and rewards for today's young composers, and how to incorporate new elements of world music into the symphonic arena. 1-3 pm Public High School appearances at the JMW Arts HS, in Pawtucket, demonstrating instruments and musical cultures from around the world. This will be followed by an in depth Christopher Lydon interview, discussing Amram's current compositional activities and performances, including his upcoming appearance at 2008 Democratic Convention providing his music for a bi-lingual concert for families and a special program conducting his classical works. |
| April 24 | 8 pm | 8PM returns for the fourth year to the JazzMouth Fstival to play at the opening of their Film Festival in Portsmouth New Hampshire.The opening night will have a screening of "Witchcraft Through the Ages", featuring a soundtrack by Jean-Luc Ponty and narration by William Burroughs. This will be followed by music by Larry Simon's Seacoast All-Stars & David Amram, and readings of works by William Burrooughs. |
| June 25-June 26 | &-10 pm | ON THE ROAD WITH KEROUAC AND ROBERT FRANK
A Celebration in words and music of the original Scroll for On the Road and the exhibition of photographs by Robert Frank from his book The Americans.[/ib} Amram, with Indianapolis musicians Kenny Phelps and Frank Smith gives a free concert at the Indoanapolis Museum of Art. The program includes performances of classics of jazz, world music, his own compositions and accompaniament for readers reciting the words of Kerouac as written in the oridginal Scroll version of his novel On the Road The evening also celebrates the masters of jazz in Indanapolis, whom Kerouac wrote about and with whom Amram first played in 1952, when he visited Indiana Avenue to jam while stationed at Camp Breckenridge Kentucky during his basic training as dreaftee in the US Army.The program will also honor Indiana authors Dan Wakefield and Kurt Vonnegut, with whom Amram collaborated and the Indianapolis Symphony which Amram has guest conducted. PULLIAM HALL FREE ADMISSION 7-9 PM |
| June 27 | 4 pm-midnight | BACK HOME IN INDIANA WITH DAVID AMRAM
A tribute to Bloomington and Indiana's enduring contributions to the arts. James Canary, conservator the the origial Scroll for Kerouac's On the Road has invited Amram to perform with local musicians and poets in Bloomington, following his concerts at the Indanapolis Museum of Art. In addition to the jazz masters, symphonic musicians and novelists whom amram honored in his Indianpolis concerts, the evening will be a tribute to composer David Baker and the faculty of the Indiana Unversity music department and the music of John Cougar Melloncamp and his band members, all of whom appear annualy at the Farm Aid concerts, where Amram performs with Willie Nelson for the past twenty years. There will also be interviews and recordings by radio station WFIU Concert from 7 pm until 11 pm |
| June 30 | 10 am- 6 pm | Recording of Steve Martin's Music
Banjo virtuoso and founder of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Jon McKueun has invited Amram to perform on a new record he is producing with actor, author and banjo-player Steve Martin. The recording features members of an all-star band with Martin himself performing on banjo and singng for a CD of all his original compositions, to be released in early 2009. |
| July 1st | 8 pm til midnight | Rendezvous avec le Festivsl du Jazz a Montreal
Amram returns to the Montreal Jazz Festival for a bi-lingual (English and French)concert. performing with his trio, in classics of jazz, world music and his own compositions. Since his scoring of the feature documentary film Nous Sommes Jeunes which debuted for the opening of Expo in 1967 in Montreal, Amram has appeared there for eight years as conductor for young people's concerts with the Montreal Symphony, as well as a solist with chamber orchestras and with other festivals of music of all genres over the past forty years. JAZZ UPSTAIRS- 1254 McCay (corner of McCay and St Catherine's) 8 PM Telephone 514 522-8405 for further information |
| July 5 | 7-11 pm | INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION OF FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF PASSIM'S
A tribute to a half a century of innovative new music of all genres in one of America's first and oldest arts cafes Originally known as the Club 47, Psasim's has survived for a half a century as a community based mecca for acoustic music of all styles, providing a venue for some of the country's best musicians, song writers and poets. Bob Donlan and his wife Rae Anne are honored in this special program, for their decades of work in preserving Passim's unique character. In addition to classics of jazz, world music, readings from "On the Road" with music and 'Amram's own compositions, there will be an on staged documented interview by Dave Palmer of the Lowell Sun, speaking to Amram about the shared friendship of Bob Donlan, Amram and Jack Kerouac since 1956, prior to the pubication of "On the Road' and the ensuing cultural and social changes which have occured since then. Guest muaicians and readers will appear with Amram and his quartet, celebrating the spirit of spontanaity and shared creativity which remains the inspiration fo today's young artists Passims 47 Palmer Street 7 PM $20 admission for whole evening |
| July 7 | 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 guests will also appear. |
| July 9-12 | Day and night | ANNUAL WOODYFEST IN OKEMA OKLAHOMA
amram returns for fourth conseccutive year in a festival with Judy collins, Country Joe McDonald and artists from acoss the country, celebrating the legacy of Woody Guthrie. Amram will give a concert, s well as accompany poets from Oklahoma in a special afternoon program, discuss his recent composition Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie , play for a tribute to Phil Ochs, and perform with young musicians during their concerts. His son Adam Amram and his daughter-in-law Teresa Colamonaco will both be performing with him. Festival is held throughout the town of Okemah Oklhoma. (See website of WoodyFest for details) |
| August 22-30th | day and night | DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION: AMRAM APPOINTED COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE
Amram will give a series of concerts prior to and during the convention in Denver, including a gala free concert at the Convention Center August 24. The program is titled From Fanny Lou Hamer to Martin Luther King to Barack Obama: How Civil Rights chanded American Politics. The guest of honor is Representative John Conyers. The program will include perfomances of Amram's Three Songs for America for bass/baritone and chamber orchestra[/i, ](musical settings of speeches by John F Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, composed in 1968 for PBS.) He will also conduct the Denver Childen's Chorale in Three Songs for Young Peoplewhich honor the legacies of Native American singer Floyd Red Crow Westerman, jazz icon and composer Thelonious Monk and band leader and pioneer of Afro-Cuban music Machito. He will conduct the world premiere premiere of a new piece using both the Childen's Chorale, his Denver based jazz quartet, and create the score for a special documentary film to be shown during this gala concert of the 24th, s well as performing music by Charlie Parker with his quartet. The concert is sponsored by the Democratic National Convention, The Denver Public Library, Rocky Mountain PBS and Nation Magazine. During the week, he will also also appear as a guest soloist with other artists and ensembles in concerts throughout the city. Final details TBA shortly |
| Nov 2 2008 | 8:30 pm | AT HOME AROUND THE WORLD
Amram is joined by guitarist Fareed Haque, bassist Frank Smith and drummer Kenny Phelps in a featured concert (SOLD OUT!!)held at the new Morse Theater, for the Chicago Humanities Festival. The concert will feaured music from around the World, as well as Amram's own compositions. readings from Jack Kerouac's On the Road[with music and classics of Jazz, Latin and Native American music. Morse Theater 1328 W. Morse Ave 8:30 pm |
| Nov 3 2008 | all day and nught | COMPOSER-IN-RESIDENCE FOR COLUMBIA COLLEGE
Collaborations in the Arts: Composing symphonies and concertos for the concert hall,opera, theater, film, and spoken word. Amram works with students, showing Professor Ron Falzone's students how his work with director Elia Kazan for the 1960 score for Splendor in the Grass was created, how jazz and symphonic music were incorporated, and the prior collaboratons with Kazan in the theater. The relationship of spontenaity and formality, which The Actor's Studio championed, will also be discussed, and how the community of visual artists, actors, playwrites, film makers, concert composers, jazz musicians and novelists all influenced the creation of the score. and how today, all young people ca create their own films, with advanced technology, and bypass the entire Hollywood establishment. |
| Nov 5th 2008 | noon-1 pm | Televison interview with film maker Teri McCluhan, about his new score for McCluhan's documentary film The Frontier Ghandi which will receive its USA premiere at the Lincoln Center, followed by Amram's concert World Beat which will given following the screening on November 8th at the South East Asian Film Festival in New York City. |
| Nov 8 | 6-10 pm | USA PREMIERE OF "THE FRONTIER GHANDI" at the Lincoln Center, followed by a concert "World Beat"
Twenty-one years in the making, Teri McCluhan's epic 90 minute documetary film, shot in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan is receiving its US premiere at the South East Asian Film Festival at the Lincoln Center. Amram composed, orchestrated and conducted the score, well as performing for it with virtuoso musicians including Badal Roy on tablas and outstanding symphonic musicians from major orchestras drwan from the greater New York area. Following the 6 pm screening of the film, Amram will give a concert World Beat at 8 pm Both the Premiere screening and concert are to be held in Allen Room at Lincoln Center New York City at 6 pm and the concert at 8pm Call Lincoln Center South East Asian Film Festival for further details. |
| November 10th | 8 pm and 8:45 pm | HEALTHCARE NOW A benefit concert to further the cause of National HealthCare
St. Marks Church 131 E. 10th St., NYC Amram is opening performer for the benefit, thirty minutes prior to performing with his Trio at actor Jerry Stiller's tribute at nearby Players Club at 16 Central Park South at 845 Central Park South. |
| Nov 11-Nov 23 | Day and night | COMPLETING NEWLY COMMISSIONED PIANO CONCERTO
Amram works composing his newly commissioned Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, to be premiered January 2009 with piano soloist John Nakamatsu and the Symphony Silicon Valley of San Jose California, conducted by Paul Polivnick Amram is also be completing revisions for the paperback re-issue by Paradigm Publishers of his 1968 memoir Vibrations:The Adventures and Musical Times of David Amram due to be re-released in March of 2009, joining Paradigm's publication in paperback of his two recent books OffBeat: Collaboratng With Kerouac and Upbeat : Nine Lives of a Musical Cat |
| nov 21-December 31 | day and night | COMPLETING NEWLY COMMISSIONED PIANO CONCERTO
Amram works composing his newly commissioned Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, to be premiered January 2009 with piano soloist John Nakamatsu and the Symphony Silicon Valley of San Jose California, conducted by Paul Polivnick Amram is also be completing revisions for the paperback re-issue by Paradigm Publishers of his 1968 memoir Vibrations:The Adventures and Musical Times of David Amram due to be re-released in March of 2009, joining Paradigm's publication in paperback of his two recent books OffBeat: Collaboratng With Kerouac and Upbeat : Nine Lives of a Musical Cat |
| November 25 | 7:30 pm | NEW YORK PERFORMANCE WITH BANJO VIRTUOSO JOHN McEuen of NITTY GRITTY DIRT BAND
Amram joins John McEuen and his son Nathan at the Canal Room in NYC. McEuen recently invited Amram to perform on the new Steve Martin CD he is producing.. McEuen and Amram have toured together with Three Jammin' Gents in various locales across the USA. |
| December1 | - 8:30-11 pm | NOW IS STILL THE TIME-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, film makers 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, Adam Amram congas, Maria Teresa Colamonico percussion. Featured guests are actor John Ventimiglia of The Sopranos .and singer/songwriter Morley Kamen. Other surprise performers will also appear. Cornelia Street Cafe Greenwich Village New York |
| 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 |
| 2006 | ||
| Date | Time | Event |
| 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"
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| July 25 | AMRAM JOINS DAUGHTER ALANA AMRAM AND HER BAND "ROUGH GEMS" AS A FEATURED GUEST
IN A COMMUNITY CONCERT PRESENTED BY ARTS ON THE LAKE Amram plays with his daughter Alana and her band "Rough Gems" During the evening, she will be joined by performances by her brother Adam Amram, sister Adira Amram and mother Loralee Ecobelli, in a night of songs from Alana's latest album. Lake Carmel New York. See Arts on the Lake website for details. |
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| August 8th | AMRAM'S TRIO PERFORMS AT THE THIRD ANNUAL OUTDOOR PEEKSKILL JAZZ AND BLUES FESTIVAL 2009
Amram is one of the headliners for this annual free concert celebrating American roots music. Having presented the first Aaron Copland Celebration of American Music conducting the Brooklyn Philharmonic years ago at the Paramount Theater in Peekskill, Amram returns to Peekskill for this new community outdoor festival, held on Division Street for several thousand people, in downtown Peekskill New York. Admission is free |
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| 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. |
| July8-12 | WOODYFEST THE ANNUAL WOODY GUTHRIE MUSIC FESTIVAL
Amram returns for the fifth consecutive year with his son drummer Adam Amram to perform a solo concert Saturday night and be guest soloist with several other ensembles. He will also accompany Oklahoma poets, creating music for their readings. Woody Guthrie's granddaughter will include excerpts of Amram's orchestral work [i ] Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie which as commissioned by the Guthrie fondation in a presentation of Guthrie's legacy and the continued influence his work engenders today in many forms of new music. Admission is free. |
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| 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. |
| Jan 4 | 8:30-11 pm | NEW YEARS CELEBRATION: FIFTY FIVE YEARS IN GREENWICH VILLAGE
Amram and his quartet perform music he has composed, celebrating more than 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 NYC (between Bleeker and West 4th St) 8:30 TO 11 PM |
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