[78-L] Amram meets Kerouac with an assist from Artie Bucco

[David Lennick]

This sounds like a fascinating evening. And this is an unsolicited plug from a 
longtime fan of David Amram (haven't seen him in over 30 years and he still 
remembers some interviews and radio features we did whenever he was in town).

dl

> News from David Amram
> *August 19, 2012
> *
>
> *For Immediate Release*
>
> *An Evening of David Amram's Chamber Music*
> *and Readings From Jack Kerouac's On The Road with music*
>
> *Friday, September 7, 8:00 pm*
>
> Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre
> 2537 Broadway @ 95th
>
> A tribute concert to celebrate the chamber music of composer David Amram
> as a part of the New York Chamber Music Festival
>
> Featuring multi-instrumentalist David Amram with his Quartet, John Ventimiglia
> (of The Sopranos), flutist Carol Wincenc, musicians from the New York
> Philharmonic and Metropolitan Opera, the New York Piano Quartet and young
> performers from the award-winning Face the Music ensemble with artistic
> director Jenny Undercofler.
>
> Release Date:August 11, 2012
> Contact:info at newyorkchambermusicfestival.org, tel. 646-797-3136
> New York, NY -- On Friday September 7 at 8 pm, the acclaimed New York Piano
> Quartet, internationally renowned flutist Carol Wincenc, violinist and former
> MET Orchestra concert master Elmira Darvarova, eminent cellist Wendy Sutter,
> New York Philharmonichornist Howard Wall, Metropolitan Opera principal
> percussionist Greg Zuber, actor John Ventimiglia (of the The Sopranos), famed
> pianists Tomoko Kanamaru and Hsin-Chiao Liao, talented young musicians from the
> award-winning ensemble Face the Music with artistic director Jenny Undercofler,
> the much talked about David Amram Quartet and multi-instrumentalist David Amram
> himself, will gather at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Symphony Space to
> celebrate the chamber music of one of the most significant American composers
> of all times -- the indefatigable David Amram, as part of the 2012 New York
> Chamber Music Festival.
> This celebration of David Amram's chamber music includes a wide variety of the
> composer's works which represent his prolific career spanning many decades.
> Works include the 1960 Violin Sonata, the 1979 piano quartet Portraits, the
> 1977 Native American Portraits,the 1982 Blues and Variations for Monk, the 1993
> Theme and Variations on Red River Valley, the Andante movement from the
> Concerto for Flute Giants of the Night(commissioned and premiered in 2002 by
> Sir James Galway), its chamber music version presented at this concert by
> flutist Carol Wincenc in its New York premiere, and the very recently written
> 2012 Cancion de Verano (Summer Song), also performed in its New York premiere,
> by the acclaimed young musicians ensemble Face The Music.Several of these works
> are inspired by David Amram's legendary collaboration with Jack Kerouac, whose
> iconic work On the Road has its own presence at the September 7 concert, with 5
> readings, performed by actor John Ventimiglia (of The Sopranos) and David
> Amram's daughter Adira Amram.
> To contact David Amram for interviews prior to the concert email
> amramdavid at aol.comor call 914-299-3497 For more about David Amram access
> www.davidamram.com
>
> Program
> Violin Sonata(1960)
> Elmira Darvarova (violin) and Tomoko Kanamaru (piano)
> Theme and Variations on Red River Valley (1993)
> Carol Wincenc (flute) with the members of the Face the Music ensemble
> Andante from Giants of the Night* (2002)
> Carol Wincenc, flute and Hsin-Chiao Liao (piano)
> *New York premiere of the chamber version
> Portraits (1979)
> Members of the New York Piano Quartet with Wendy Sutter (guest cellist)
> Intermission
> Cancion de Verano (Summer Song)*(2012)
> Members of the Face the Music ensemble
> *New York premiere
> Blues and Variations for Monk (1982)
> Howard Wall (horn)
> 5 Readings from "On the Road' by Jack Kerouac (2011)
> John Ventimiglia and Adira Amram with the David Amram Quartet
> Native American Portraits(1977)
> Elmira Darvarova (violin), Greg Zuber (percussion), David Amram (percussion),
> Tomoko Kanamaru (piano)
> *
> Tickets:$20 in advance (Symphony Space Members, Students, Seniors $15; Day of
> Performance $25) at symphonyspace.org or call their Box Office at 212-864-5400
>
> David Amramhas conducted more than seventy-five of the world's great
> orchestras, composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber works, written two
> operas and, early in his career, wrote and conducted many scores for theater
> and films, including Splendor in the Grass and The Manchurian Candidate. Since
> being appointed by Leonard Bernstein as the first composer in residence with
> the New York Philharmonic in 1966, he has become one of the most acclaimed
> composers of his generation, listed by BMI as one of the 20 Most Performed
> Composers of Concert Music in the United States since 1974. The Boston Globe
> has hailed him, "The Renaissance Man of American Music."
> For twenty-nine seasons, Amram was the Music Director, Conductor and Narrator
> of Young People's, Family and Free Summer Parks concerts for the Brooklyn
> Philharmonic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; and for seventeen seasons, Amram
> was the Musical Director and Conductor of the International Jewish Arts
> Festival, conducting members of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In addition
> to conducting, he has also performed with symphony orchestras as a soloist on
> instruments from all over the world, combining jazz, Latin American, Middle
> Eastern, Native American and folk music alongside the European classics.
> Today, Amram continues to perform as a guest conductor and soloist while
> continuing a remarkable pace of composing. Recently acclaimed new works include
> Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie; Three Songs: A Concerto for
> Piano and Orchestra; and Giants of the Night, a flute concerto commissioned and
> premiered by Sir James Galway. A Little Rebellion: Thomas Jefferson, a piece
> for narrator and orchestra, was premiered at the Kennedy Center with Amram
> conducting; and Kokopeli, A Symphony in Three Movements, had its world premiere
> with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, also with Amram conducting.
> A pioneer player of jazz French horn, he is also a virtuoso on piano, numerous
> flutes and whistles, percussion, and dozens of folkloric instruments from 25
> countries, as well as an inventive, funny improvisational lyricist. He has
> collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Jack Kerouac, Leopold
> Stokowski, Langston Hughes, Dustin Hoffman, Willie Nelson, Thelonious Monk,
> Odetta, Elia Kazan, Eugene Ormandy, Arthur Miller, Bob Dylan, Alan Ginsberg,
> Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, Paddy Chayevsky, Johnny Depp, Archibald
> MacLeish, Pete Seeger, Tito Puente and Joseph Papp.
>
> A documentary feature film, David Amram: The First 80 Years, is currently being
> shown at major music and film festivals throughout the United States and
> internationally. Directed by Lawrence Kraman, the film includes the New York
> premier of his Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie and highlights
> of his comic opera 12th Night. Amram is also featured in Andrew Zuckerman's
> book and new feature film documentary Wisdom: The Greatest Gift One Generation
> Can Give To Another, as one of the world's 50 Elder Thinkers and Doers;and his
> instructional video, Origins of Symphonic Instruments, released by Educational
> Video, is shown in over 6,000 schools throughout the United States and Canada.
> On Sept 7th, 2012, the 4th Annual New York Chamber Music Festival presents an
> entire evening of Amram's chamber music compositions at Symphony Space in
> Manhattan; and on September 21st and 22nd, Amram conducts the Colorado Symphony
> in Denver for a program which will include a live recording of his Symphonic
> Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie.
> For further information of Amram's activities, access his webpage
> www.davidamram.com
> New York Chamber Music Festival * P.O. Box 231284, New York, NY 10023 *
> 646-797-3136
> info at newyorkchambermusicfestival.org
> http://david-amram80.blogspot.com/2012/08/for-immediate-release-evening-of-david.html
>
> To contact David Amram for interviews prior to the concert email
> amramdavid at aol.comor call 914-299-3497 For more about David Amram access
> www.davidamram.com
>
> David Amram Management
>
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> 300 West 55th Street
> New York, New York 10019
> Tele: (212) 245-0240
> Email: yeagerprod at aol.com
> Skype: DouglasYeager
>
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