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David Amram
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A pioneer player of jazz French horn, David Amram 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, who chose him as The New York Philharmonic's first composer-in-residence in 1966, Langston Hughes, Dizzy Gillespie, Dustin Hoffman, Willie Nelson, Thelonious Monk, Odetta, Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, E. G. Marshall, and Tito Puente. Amram's most recent work "Giants of the Night" is a flute concerto dedicated to the memory Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac and Dizzy Gillespie, three American artists Amram knew and worked with. It was commissioned and premiered by Sir James Galway.
Take Five With Renée Manning
by AAJ Staff
Meet Renée Manning Widely celebrated vocalist/composer, Renée Manning, has been educating students ages 2 to 100 years for the past 35 years. During her 10 years as instructor and Vocal Chair at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, she has been awarded several grants including Met Life grants for her choral work with Prospect Hill Senior Center, ...
New England Conservatory Announces 2022 Speaker And Honorary Degree Recipients For Its 151st Commencement Ceremony
Honorary Degree Recipient and Commencement Speaker: James Taylor, singer-songwriter Honorary Degree Recipient: David Amram, conductor and composer; Ella Jenkins, the “First Lady of Children’s Music” Special Guests: Emanuel Ax, pianist, Honorary Doctorate 2021; Denys Karachevtsev, Ukrainian cellist and music teacher New England Conservatory President Andrea Kalyn and the Board of Trustees announce multiple Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter ...
Bebop, Beats, and the Drive of Beat Literature
by Arthur R George
"Mulberry-eyed girls in black stockings, Smelling vaguely of mint jelly and last night's bongo drummer... fling their arrow legs / To the heavens / Losing their doubts in the beat" of jny: San Francisco nights, announced poet Bob Kaufman's “Bagel Shop Jazz." (Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness, New Directions Publishing, 1965; Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman, City ...
Interschool Orchestras Of New York And Mingus Dynasty Present: Mingus at Liu Kumble Theatre on November 17
InterSchool Orchestras of New York and Mingus Dynasty are collaborating to present MINGUS. This concert features never-before-heard full orchestra arrangements of popular Mingus tunes arranged by Earl McIntyre. It will also feature Renée Manning and solo performances by Mingus Dynasty. DATE: Sunday, November 17, 2019 TIME: 6 pm LOCATION: Long ...
Hal Willner's Rock 'n' Rota
by Ludovico Granvassu
"The whole is greater than the sum of its parts." Anyone who has ever been at an all-star event--especially if that was a tribute concert--has learned the importance of Aristotle's maxim the hard way. Maybe the occasion was momentous, the cast probably star-studded, the heart certainly in the right place and the expectations high... however, at ...
David Amram 87th Birthday Celebration at the Falcon
by Mike Jurkovic
David Amram Quartet The Falcon87th Birthday Celebration Marlboro, NY December 3, 2017 Ever a celebration of our true angel hearts and creative selves, David Amram's irrepressible spirit (he did turn 87 on November 17th) and margin-mashing musical journey (Phil Och's “When I'm Gone" as a sweet jazz standard anyone?) ...
Culture Clubs: A History of the U.S. Jazz Clubs, Part II: New York
by Karl Ackermann
Jazz didn't abandon jny: Chicago but its further development only began to take on a distinct personality in the 1960s. By the late 1920s, the next phase of the jazz scene had shifted from Chicago to New York though, initially, there was no red carpet rolled out. As jazz bands made their way to New York ...
Classic American Film Scores 1956-2016
By David Amram
Label: Moochin' About
Released: 2016
Track listing:
CD 1:
Theme from the Manchurian Candidate (Jazz Version); Cantina Latina;
Theme from the Manchurian Candidate (Orchestral Version); Queen Of
Diamonds; John Birch Lurch (Politicians On Parade); Unrequited Love; Slightly
Manchurian Blues; Dare to Dream; Home Again 1952; A Night in the Garden;
Some Soul from Seoul; Summer Affair/Wiggin' Out in Central Park; Return of a
Hero; Theme & Finale.
CD 2:
Theme Music from Splendor in the Grass; The Bash Before the Crash;
High School Prom Dance 1925; Everybody's Wild About Mabel; Kansas 1920;
One More Dance; Splendor in the Grass; Anatolia; Love Is Never Out of Style;
Mountain Snow; Sunny Days; Blue Tomorrow; Zephyr March of the Nicotine
Fields; Old Country Soul; Other Dreams; Childhood Dreams; Definitely Blue;
Ancestral Dreams; Kazoo Story; Anatolia.
CD 3:
Pull My Daisy (Film); Pull My Daisy (Vocals - Lynn Sheffield); Las
Muchachas Delicadas; Switchblades on Parade; Harold's Way Out; Subway
Sounds; True Blue; Funeral March and Requiem; The Last Taco; Rooftops;
Later with the Elevator; Help!; Theme from the Young Savages; Echo of an Era.
CD 4:
Waltz from After the Fall; Act I: Prologue; Blues on the Waterfront; Dare
to Dream; Mas Mano; Neighbourhood Dreams; All My Love; Act 2: Prologue;
Muy Caliente; Rooftops of New York; Epilogue.
CD 5:
Prologue; Joan's Theme; Descaraga; Blue Monday (Viola & Piano);
Funky Sax; Joan's Theme (String Version); Steak House; Sailing Past a Buoy
Montage; Monastery; String Quartet & Pizzicato; Death Scene I; Blue Monday;
Fast Blues; Escape; Guitar Duo; Dixie in New York; Death Scene II; Blue
Monday (Swing); Take oh... take thy lips Away; Sermon; Dance.
David Amram: Classic American Film Scores 1956-2016
by Alberto Bazzurro
Nato a Filadelfia nel 1930, David Amram è una figura tutto sommato non particolarmente nota nel vasto panorama del jazz legato al lavoro negli studios cinematografici, per cui assolutamente benemerito arriva questo box, da lui fortemente voluto, che ne riunisce organicamente le colonne sonore (non tutte, ma una significativa selezione) per cinema e -più episodicamente -teatro. ...
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