tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5030488011297622822024-02-20T21:32:23.114-05:00For Immediate ReleaseUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503048801129762282.post-26793983868528704552014-11-29T14:44:00.003-05:002014-11-29T14:50:54.264-05:00David Amram
Fall 2014 - Residency At Harvard University<br />
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"My hope is that any undergraduate - whether an art history student or pre-med major - can feel at home with and learn from a fellow undergraduate who plays with or performs with one of Harvard's excellent musical ensembles, so that when I leave campus, they will be able to form a life time bond and educate one another." - David Amram, December 2014<br />
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Tuesday, December 2
7:00-9:15 PM - 74 Mt. Auburn St. • Rehearsal with the Harvard Wind Ensemble of Amram's saxophone concerto Ode To Lord Buckley and En Memoria de Chano Pozo for Latin Jazz Trio and Orchestra<br />
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Wednesday, December 3
8:00-9:30 PM - 74 Mt. Auburn St. • Conversation and Jam Session with the Harvard Monday Jazz Band (even though it's Wednesday!) • Amram discusses 70 years of his adventures with and mentoring by jazz and world music masters of the past and present including Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, Tito Puente and Betty Carter<br />
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Thursday, December 4
3:30-4:30 PM - Farkas Hall, 74 Mt. Auburn St. • Learning From Performers • David Amram will speak with Professor Mark Olson with questions from the audience as his recounts his adventures as a composer in the worlds of symphonic, operatic, choral, theatrical, film and chamber music, as well as his work as a multi-instrumentalist in the world of jazz, folk, blues, country, Latin and Native American music, Middle Eastern music and his pioneering poetry and musical collaborations with novelist Jack Kerouac in 1957; He will also describe what it is like today at the age of 84 to continue composing new music while touring the world as a composer, guest conductor, band leader and narrator in five languages; And finally, will discuss how the internet and YouTube make it possible for every young person to have access to different forms of art of lasting value and to communicate globally with one another; This event is free and open to the public<br />
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5:00-6:30 PM - 74 Mt. Auburn St. • Rehearsal with the Harvard Wind Ensemble<br />
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9:00-12 PM - Harvard Epworth Church, 1555 Massachusetts Avenue, Just north of Harvard Square • Solo performance at the Squawk Coffee House • Amram will play instruments from around the world he has acquired in his 60 years of global touring and perform a few of his own compositions, including his classic song "Pull My Daisy," - with lyrics by Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady + Allen Ginsberg - which he composed as the title song for Alfred Leslie and Robert Frank's classic 1959 film of the same name; This event is free and open to the public<br />
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Friday, December 5
8:00-9:30 PM - Lowell Hall • Harvard Wind Ensemble Concert • Two of Amram's most popular concert works will be performed: His saxophone concerto, Ode To Lord Buckley - with soloist Ken Radnofsky - and En Memoria de Chano Pozo for Latin Jazz Trio and Orchestra - with Amram, himself as soloist<br />
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Saturday, December 6
10:00 AM - Noon - Harvard Square Hotel • Final interviews with Amram
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12:30 PM - Amram leaves Boston and drives to New Jersey to perform that evening with Josh White Jr. celebrating the music and legacy of his father Josh White Sr. on his centenaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503048801129762282.post-82476582435389948352012-08-13T18:33:00.002-04:002012-08-14T22:52:33.339-04:00<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">An Evening of David Amram’s Chamber Music<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 16pt;">and Readings From Jack Kerouac’s <i>On The Road</i> with music<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Friday, September 7, 8:00 pm<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Symphony Space, Peter Jay Sharp Theatre<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">A tribute concert to celebrate the chamber music of composer David Amram<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">as a part of the New York Chamber Music Festival<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Featuring multi-instrumentalist David Amram with his Quartet, John Ventimiglia (of <i>The Sopranos</i>), 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.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Release Date:</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> August 11, 2012<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><span style="font-family: Times;">Contact:</span></b><span style="font-family: Times;"> <a href="mailto:info@newyorkchambermusicfestival.org" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">info@<wbr></wbr>newyorkchambermusicfestival.<wbr></wbr>org</a>, tel. <a href="tel:646-797-3136" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+16467973136">646-797-3136</a><u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">New York, NY -- </span><span style="font-family: Times;">On Friday <span>September 7 </span>at 8 pm, the acclaimed <span>New York Piano Quartet, i</span>nternationally renowned flutist <span>Carol Wincenc</span>, violinist and former MET Orchestra concert master <span>Elmira Darvarova</span>, eminent cellist <span>Wendy Sutter</span>, New York Philharmonic hornist <span>Howard Wall</span>, Metropolitan Opera principal percussionist <span>Greg Zuber</span>, actor <span>John Ventimiglia (of the <i>The Sopranos</i>), </span>famed pianists <span>Tomoko Kanamaru </span>and <span>Hsin-Chiao Liao</span>, talented young musicians from the award-winning ensemble <span>Face the Music </span>with artistic director Jenny Undercofler, the much talked about <span>David Amram Quartet </span>and multi-instrumentalist <span>David Amram </span>himself, will gather at the <span>Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Symphony Space </span>to celebrate the chamber music of one of the most significant American composers of all times -- the indefatigable <span>David Amram, </span>as part of the 2012 New York Chamber Music Festival.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">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 <i>Portraits, </i>the 1977 <i>Native American Portraits,</i><span> t</span>he 1982 <i>Blues and Variations for Monk, </i><span>t</span>he 1993 <i>Theme and Variations on Red River Valley, </i>the <i>Andante </i>movement from the <i>Concerto for Flute Giants of the Night</i><span> (</span>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 <i>Cancion de Verano (Summer Song)</i>, also performed in its New York premiere, by the acclaimed young musicians ensemble Face The Music.<span> </span>Several of these works are inspired by David Amram’s legendary collaboration with Jack Kerouac, whose iconic work <i>On the Road </i>has its own presence at the September 7 concert, with 5 readings, performed by actor John Ventimiglia and David Amram’s daughter Adira Amram.<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;"><b>To contact David Amram for interviews prior to the concert email</b> </span><a href="mailto:amramdavid@aol.com" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Times;">amramdavid@aol.com</span></a><span style="font-family: Times;"> <b>or call <a href="tel:914-299-3497" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank" value="+19142993497">914-299-3497</a></b><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><u></u><u></u></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Times;"><b>For more about David Amram <a href="http://david-amram.blogspot.com/2010/05/d-avid-amram-has-composed-more-than-100.html" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">a</a>ccess <a href="http://www.davidamram.com/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">www.davidamram.<wbr></wbr>com</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">An Evening of David Amram’s Chamber Music<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">and Readings From Jack Kerouac’s <i>On The Road</i> with music<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Friday, September 7, 8:00 pm<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">A tribute concernt to celebrate the chamber music of composer David Amram<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">as a part of the 4th annual New York Chamber Music Festival<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><b><i><span style="font-family: Times;">Andante from Giants of the Night</span></i></b><i><span style="font-family: Times;">* </span></i><span style="font-family: Times;">(2002)<b><u></u><u></u></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">*New York premiere of the chamber version<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times;">M</span><span style="font-family: Times;">embers of the New York Piano Quartet with Wendy Sutter (guest cellist)<u></u><u></u></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Just a short note to congratulate and thank all of you who brought the David Amram Concert to the CAA sanctuary last night. "Magical moment" is overused, but I can't think of a better phrase to describe the opportunity to see and hear an expansive virtuoso who has few peers. Mr. Amram's embrace of the world's music, his passion and curiosity, his kindness, his tenacious start in music -- it was all so Jewish, and so appropriate for the sanctuary. Best of luck on the rest of the Festival. Great start. Yasher koach! </span><br />
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<b>L'Mizmor David (Song of David)</b> - An Israeli adaptation of an old Lebanese folk melody featuring the <i>halil</i> (a shepard's flute), the <i>tambor</i> and the <i>dumbek</i> (also known as the <i>Tov</i> or <i>Esther's drum</i>).</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>Summertime</i></b> - Gershwin's classic song from his opera <i>Porgy and Bess</i> reflects a combination of the cantorial music Gershwin heard as a boy, as well as being inspired by the Gullah and Geechee music and spirituals he heard when he spent time on Esdo Island in South Carolina while composing <i>Porgy and Bess</i>. This features the unique gifts of guitar master John Inmon.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>Take the A Train</i></b> - Billy Strayhorn's classic theme song for Duke Ellington's band. When Amram conducted the NY premiere of Ellington's <i>Black, Brown and Beige Suite</i> for symphony, orchestrated by Maurice Peress. Ellington encouraged Amram to continue learning and sharing music from around the world as well as incorporating elements of it into his formal compositions, just as Ellington had done for decades.</span></div>
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<b><i>Mastinchele Wachipi Olwan</i></b> - This Traditional Native American Lakota social song was taught to Amram by the late Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, a long time favorite at the Kerrville Music Festival. This ancient melody became the theme for Amram's <i>Trail of Beauty</i> for oboe, mezzo-soprano and orchestra commissioned and premiered by the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy. It features the traditional courting flute known as the <i>sheeho</i>.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>My Buddha Angel in Chengdu</b></i> - A poem Amram wrote about his last night in China. The use of the Chinese folk oboe, known a <i>hulusi</i>, in this minor mode blues was inspired his trip to Chengdu, China where Amram demonstrated his collaborations with Jack Kerouac, including their pioneering the first-ever public jazz/poetry readings with music in New York City.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>Variations on Red River Valley</i></b> - This set of improvised variations became the basis for <i>Theme and Variations on Red River Valley</i> for flute and strings commissioned and premiered by the Kerrville Folk Festival and written in memory of Lukenbach Texas' legendary mayor, Hondo Crouch. This improvised version was also inspired by Old Testament bible stories Amram was told by his father on their family farm. Because of Amram's own Southern roots (the Amram family immigrated to Savannah Georgia in the 1850s), and his own years of living in the South, he felt at home in Texas the first time he traveled through the state over sixty years ago and still feels that way today.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i>Hava Nagila</i></b> - One of the most popular songs in the world, this piece combined traditional Jewish music of many genres with Middle Eastern music and early jazz, and in this special Lone Star version, everyone, including the audience, gets a chance to go into uncharted waters.</span></div>
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Pete Seeger & David Amram after the hour long march from the Symphony Space Benefit Concert for Clearwater to their midnight performance at Columbus Circle.</td></tr>
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<b>A NOTE TO ALL MY FRIENDS ABOUT THE MIDNIGHT MARCH AND CONCERT WITH PETE SEEGER FOR JOBS AND JUSTICE</b><br />
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Last night, after Symphony Space's sold-out concert for the Clearwater Festival, I walked with Pete Seeger, Pete's grandson Tao Rodriguez Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Tom Chapin, Guy Davis, my two kids Alana and Adam, and a bunch of young people for thirty six blocks from West 95th Street to the Columbus Circle Fountain on West 59th street, where we gave a second free impromptu concert at midnight in front of the water fountain.<br />
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We were accompanied by a mob of marchers and all the policemen who escorted us were exceptionally friendly and supportive, and there were no bad moments.<br />
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It was wonderful to see picket signs from the United Auto Workers, as well as other unions, teachers groups and some of the members of Occupy Wall Street who came uptown to join us.<br />
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What Pete and all of hoped for was that this march and midnight concert would be a peaceful message to all New Yorkers to encourage each of them to find their own way to help assure a future for our kids and restore a world which celebrated fairness and decency for everyone.<br />
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All of us who came up during the years of the Great Depression of the 30s had faith that the USA was a society where hard work and the possibility of finding a job was a given, and that all of us should accept equal responsibility for paying our fair share of taxes.<br />
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And that we could always have the time to be compassionate towards others who were also struggling to make ends meet.<br />
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You don't have to be a genius to see the inequities today. They can be easily be solved by using common sense and applying it to rectify the situation.<br />
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This event was different than what the 60s events became, when a corporate Youth Culture machine turned idealistic young people into a marketing demographic. During our hour long march (we moved slowly, due to the huge number of supporters, all of whom wanted to talk to Pete) there were NO groups I could see who seemed to be trying to profit from the current serious mess our country is in, by engaging anyone else with name calling, endless bickering and partisan self-serving insult-comic blathering and orgies of self promotion.<br />
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Pete set the tone for the whole event, as he he has been doing for the past seventy years of service to the world.<br />
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At 92, he remains as amazing as ever, and as we marched from 95th St to 57th Street, he commented to me how the two shiny metal canes he had just purchased for the occasion were a real help in making the long trek.<br />
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And when he saw a piece of paper on the sidewalk, he stopped, bent down and picked it up.<br />
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Then I saw a discarded popsicle stick on the sidewalk and doing a touch-your toes-calisthenics movement, scooped it up and kept walking.<br />
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Pete leaned over and whispered in my ear, "You can put it in my jacket pocket."<br />
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I suddenly realized that the fact that the sidewalks were so clean compared to how they were in 1955 when I first moved to New City, and that we had so many trash baskets, recycling bins and even a Hudson River where fish could swim was in large part because of Pete and his now not so crazy idea of letting us all know that each of us could make a small contribution to cleaning up the environment and trying to look after one another, by paying attention to everyone who crossed your path and being responsible for the small things like that lone discarded popsicle stick, were the small actions that each of us could take every day.<br />
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So now that I have resuscitated my hiking chops as well as having had the privilege of being part of something so positive, I am getting ready to pack up to go to Northern Italy this Wednesday night for eleven days for a series of concerts, with the wonderful young musician Dario Pinelli and his Gypsy Jazz ensemble. We played together last year in New York and he is fabulous.<br />
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After all my recent forays of the past few months, including last nights marathon post concert march, my upcoming trip to Bella Italia will definitely be, as they say in Italian, <i>un grande cambiamento di ritmo</i> (a great change of pace).<br />
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With cheers always, ed un abbraiccione dall'Italia per tutti.<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;">Tu cumpà sempre,</div><div style="text-align: right;"><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">HIGHLIGHTS of DAVID AMRAM'S SUMMER SCHEDULE</span></b><br />
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On July 15th, David will be inducted into the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in Tulsa, receiving a lifetime achievement award. <br />
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That same evening David will also be heading an all-star jazz band in a Tribute Concert to his old friend and one of his first band leaders, the late legendary Oklahoma jazz bassist and cellist Oscar Pettiford, whom David played with from 1955 through 1957 while also recording three albums with Oscar. Along with Julius Watkins, David pioneered the use of French Horn as an improvising instrument in jazz, while jamming with Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk and Miles and performing and recording with Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, Mary Lou Williams, Betty Carter and Kenny Dorham, after his first recordings in Paris with Lionel Hampton in 1955. For the Pettiford big band, Oscar chose to use both Amram and Watkins in his Orchestra, to create a new sound with two French Horns. When David joined the Pettiford band in 1956, Oscar was already a renowned musician, who had introduced the cello into jazz music, and had played bass and cello throughout the 1940s with many of the great big band jazz orchestras of the era, including Coleman Hawkins, Earl Hines, Ben Webster, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Barnett, Duke Ellington and Woody Herman. With Gillespie in 1943, Pettiford helped pioneer the be-bop sound. Beginning in 1950, Pettiford led his own big band and other ensembles until his death in 1960, with Cannonball Adderley as one of his most prominent discoveries.<br />
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While in Oklahoma, David will travel from Tulsa to Okemah on July 16th and 17th to honor another old friend Wood Guthrie, and perform at the Woody Guthrie Festival for the eighth time. <br />
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In early June, David performed and conducted a chamber orchestra at the Kerrville Festival in Texas, played at the Apollo Theater's 100th Anniversary Celebration of Latin Jazz and at Pete Seeger's Clearwater Festival in upstate New York. <br />
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Between now and October, David will also be Guest Composer at Queen's College Conductors Program (June 24 - 28); performing at the Putnam County Fair (July 30th); giving concerts of his chamber music and appearing at the Jane Pickens Theatre in Newport, Rhode Island for a screening of Lawrence Kraman's new feature documentary film "David Amram: The First 80 Years!" He is the featured artist for this year's Bridge Fest in Newport (August 2 - 4); then he will performing at Farm Aid as a guest artist with Willie Nelson and his band (August 13), the Philadelphia Folk Festival (August 19 - 21st); performing and lecturing at the Kerouac Fest in Wyndber, Pa (August 27th); Composer-in-Residence and performer at the MOAB Festival in Moab, Utah (August 29 - September 6th); performing his "Variations on Amazing Grace" to open up the 10th Anniversary Memorial the 9/11 Concert at Symphony Space, presented by the New York Chamber Music Festival (September 11th); performing as the soloist in his composition "In Memory of Chano Pozo" with the Shreveport Symphony Ochestra, and lecturing at Centenary College in Shreveport (September 18 - 25th); and performing as a soloist in his composition "Triple Concerto for woodwind, brass and jazz quintets and orchestra" with the Symphony Silicone Valley in San Jose, California (September 27 - October 2nd). In addition, he will be working on his fourth book and composing a new classical composition, when not touring the country.<br />
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Enjoy catching David along America's bi-ways!<br />
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Doug Yeager<br />
David Amram's Manager<br />
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P.S. Don't forget that when he is within striking distance of New York, David still performs qith his quartet and guest artists the 1st Monday of the month at the Cornelia Street Cafe in New York's Greenwich Village. <br />
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Douglas A. Yeager Productions, Ltd.<br />
300 West 55th Street, Ste. # 15E, New York, New York 10019<br />
TEL: (212) 245-0240 / FAX: (212) 245-06576<br />
SKYPE: DouglasYeager / EMAIL: yeagerprod@aol.com<br />
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</p><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><b>A MESSAGE TO NARAS AND TO ALL WHO LOVE MUSIC, THOSE WHO CREATE THE MUSIC AND THE MILLIONS WHOSE LIVES ARE ENRICHED BY ALL MUSICS BUILT TO LAST</b></div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #0018e1; font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><a href="http://www.davidamram.com/">From David Amram</a></div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">This is a day to rejoice in our solidarity.<br />
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With all of us en conjunto, we will ultimately win because all sincere musics are rising in their appreciation around the world and NARAS and corporate junk is WANING!!!</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">NARAS is trying to save the old-school music industry, which is presently like the last hours of the Titanic, rapidly sinking, and we are already in the lifeboats, heading towards the shore in order to be on time for our next gig...and WE ARE NOT GOING TO GO AWAY!!!</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Courier;"><br />
</span></span></div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">If NARAS goes out of business because of their recent decision, their board members can get other jobs outside the world of music.</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">But we will NEVER go out of business, because we are all in this for LIFE!!! And the music we create has a shelf life that will be here long after we are gone!!</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">We all bear witness to all those who came before us who worked under wretched conditions, were abused and cheated and ignored by the record business and still created a foundation</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">for us to build upon, from the glorious roots which they preserved to enrich our lives. We owe it to them as well as to our own families to stand up for what is fair.</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">We are in some good company since all the OTHER CATEGORIES THEY WANT TO CUT OUT include new recordings of the works of Mozart, Bach, Brahms and even Beethoven's "A Minor String Quartet," because NARAS tells us that since chamber music also is now a NON-CATEGORY, this music is considered of no value to the record industry.</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Cuchao's classic innovations, the trail-blazing work of Tipica 77, Irakare, the Ft. Apache Band, Ray Barreto and Cal Tjader opened doors for the young pioneers of today in Miami, Chicago and New York City.<br />
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Are we going to sit silently by as a new generation of musicians are told that what they are now creating is no longer relevant, since it is called Latin-Jazz?</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">I don't think so.</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Millions of people know that the music of established giants like Eddie Palmieri, Machito, Mario Bauza, Arsenio Rodriguez, Mongo Santa Maria, Tito Puente, Paquito d'Rivera and hundreds of others have created music BUILT TO LAST and HERE TO STAY, WITH or WITHOUT NARAS!!</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">People from all over the world visit the USA and many come to hear Native American, Cajun, Zydeco, Hawaiian, traditional Blues and Mexican-American music.</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Should they be told at the border that the country where we celebrate the artistic achievements of all cultures with respect and cherish liberty for all, is now trying to bury us all underneath a corporate carpet?</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Does NARAS only want to acknowledge what by definition, is supposed to last for two weeks before hitting the dumpster to be replaced by more trash?</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Our young people deserve a break!!</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">And we are all here to give them one.</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">If our precious first amendment rights allow freedom of expression, shouldn't that finally include FREEDOM TO CHOOSE WHAT WE HEAR!!</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">On Dizzy Gillespie's 70th birthday celebration, when I was honored to be in a band which included Mongo Santa Maria, Candido, Dave Valentin, Steve Turre, Freddie Hubbard, Ignacio Berroa and Nicky Marrero. Dizzy told me after it was over.</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">"God put us here to play this music"</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">We all have a commitment and all of us will honor that commitment all our lives.</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">It takes a real man to admit a mistake.</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">We don't want or need an apology from NARAS.</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">We DO need for them to CHANGE THEIR POSITION!!</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Many see the current NARAS position as a desire to commit cultural genocide.</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">Since we are compassionate people, we can offer NARAS the chance to reverse their position, and to help THEM from committing their OWN suicide!!</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">United we stand!!</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">P'Lante!!!</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">David Amram</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 28.0px;"><br />
</div><div style="font: 22.8px Courier New; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">May 22nd at NuYorican Poets Cafe in a gathering to raise our voices for music and the cultures who create this music.</div><p><br />
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</p><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: futura;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Come See A Sneak Preview of </span></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: futura, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-large;">DAVID AMRAM: THE FIRST 80 YEARS</span></span></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: futura, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">a documentary feature film by Lawrence Kraman</span></span></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: futura">Friday, May 13 at 8pm, Copland House at Merestead</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: futura">455 Bryam Lake Road, Mount Kisco</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: futura"><br />
</span> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: futura">To order tickets, contact (914) 788-4659 </span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: futura">or email office@coplandhouse.org.</span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503048801129762282.post-57225161835211375542011-04-19T06:39:00.027-04:002011-04-19T07:19:25.988-04:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">April 19, 2011</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">As we have all heard NARAS has eliminated Latin/Jazz as a musical genre worthy of any consideration for an award. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I hope these thoughts can be a tiny help to rectify this disgraceful decision ... </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px;">Many people I have spoken to wonder if this a first step by NARAS to eventually eliminate opera, chamber music, symphonic music, jazz and folk. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Rather than for all of us who are members to quit NARAS and eliminate our vote, which I am sure is what they would like us to do, or picket the next Grammys </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">to protest this outrageous situation, I think for now that the best strategy is to get as many people as possible to post a second opinion, so that we can EMBARRASS THEM into restoring this category. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px;">And regardless of what NARAS decrees to be music of lasting value, all of us who play and love this music are NOT GOING TO GO AWAY or stop doing what we love to do and deprive all the people who LOVE TO HEAR US DO IT !!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> </span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
</span> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So in this disturbing time, remember the old Spanish saying: "</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Se pilla al mentiroso antes que al cojo,"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> i.e., "T</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">he truth will win out." </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Adios NARAS ... Hola Latin/Jazz !!! </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Courier; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: 13px;">And we must remind the people at NARAS that ... It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that SWING !!!</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I just wrote to friends from Denver's KUVO-FM, an award-winning 24 hour a day jazz station that also plays and documents many of the treasures of Latin and Jazz collaborations of the past and present and has a huge listenership. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">They know that the many varieties of sophisticated music created over the past 70 years in its COUNTLESS forms (which we call Latin/Jazz) is here to stay and is more appreciated every day by a world wide audience. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">We all make mistakes in life and they have made a HUGE one. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">But rather than asking them to apologize to the millions of listeners as well as the musicians and the many cultures whom they have insulted, (many of whom are fans and who also buy records), let's all see what each of us can do to persuade them to restore the category.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Are we supposed to put all the treasures of Latin/Jazz recordings in the nearest landfill because NARAS has informed us that this is no longer music of any value? Even though the eliminating of Latin/Jazz is shocking and senseless, rather than all of us trashing NARAS, hopefully there can be a way to get NARAS to realize that they are injuring THEMSELVES by eliminating one of the great forms of musical expression by stopping it from being rewarded.</span></div><div style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In all fairness, if those who make these decisions had ever PLAYED, DANCED, SANG or SPENT ONE EVENING as a customer and felt the power and spirit that this music brings to EVERYONE, they would be SUPPORTING it, rather than trying to make it become invisible at the next Grammys. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Here is what I wrote to the devoted people at KUVO, with hopes that we can all support every organization as well as every person who advocates better music and therefore a better life for our children.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Dear Lou McElroy, Carlos Lando, Alfredo Cruz, Tina Cartagena, Rodney Franks, Arturo Gomez, Susan Reese and all the staff and volunteers at KUVO-FM.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Great to hear from you and I send thanks for sending me Eddie Palmieri's statement about NARAS. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I will continue, as I have done all my life, in the worlds of symphony, jazz, folk and spoken word, to try to make people, and especially young people aware of what they have not privileged to hear ...... the fantastic music which Mario Bauza, Machito, along with Bird, Dizzy, Chano Pozo and hundreds of other great musicans and singers, and 1000s of dancers, graced us with from the early 40s through today! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">In every interview, I will try to spread Eddie Palmieri's message about NARAS overlooking one of our culture's TREASURES! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Eddie, and the music he plays today, along with Jose Madera's magnificent Legend's band, and the brilliant orchestras of Arturo O'Farill, Paquito d'Rivera and so many others, inspire musicians and listeners all over the world and will continue to do so. I am blessed to have been invited to perform, at the invitation of Bobby Sanabria and Candido, for the celebration of Afro-Cuban music and jazz from the 40s to the present day, taking place at the Apollo theater this June 18, also honors Mario Bauza's 100th birthday. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">I hope I can share with everyone there that once you start to study the</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> clave</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">, you have the KEY to appreciating everything from Bird to Mozart in a whole new way. Latin music and jazz teach you how to LISTEN !!! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And together, they reinforce one another. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Latin music, and the concept of being </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">en conjunto</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">. and how this harmonious, communal CIVILIZED way relates to the spirit of jazz and all sincere musics built to last, enriches the lives of everyone fortunate enough to be exposed to it. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Whether you play it, listen to it, dance to it or pray to it, your mental and spiritual health is enriched. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">So we must all be</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> "en conjunto"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"> as we diplomatically hip NARAS to the Happenings. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Latin/Jazz is more than a category. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">It is a treasure and a unique art form and a priceless gift for us all. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">And we all thank Eddie Palmieri, along with Candido, Machito, Cachao and the late Mario Bauza for their tireless years of musical pioneering, as the ambassadors of this beautiful marriage of these two styles of music into a perfect union.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><a href="http://www.davidamram.com/">David Amram</a></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">Putnam Valley, NY</span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-503048801129762282.post-43328458502708850392010-10-09T15:13:00.022-04:002010-10-09T16:34:11.925-04:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b>DAVID AMRAM: The First 80 Years</b></span></span><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Didot;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>DAVID AMRAM: The First 80 Years </b></span></span></i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>takes place Thursday, November 11, 2010 at 7:30 pm at Peter Norton Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, NYC. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Clearwater, the organization founded by Pete Seeger, and the Woody Guthrie Foundation.</b></span></span><br />
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</b> </span><b> </b></span></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>The concert will feature the New York premiere of Amram's </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>"Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie," </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>performed in memory of </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Odetta</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> by the 60-piece </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Queens College Orchestra,</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> conducted by </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Maurice Peress. </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>The work will be introduced by </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Nora Guthrie</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>, who commissioned it with support from the Guthrie Foundation, based on her father's song </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>"This Land is Your Land."</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> "</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>En Memoria de Chano Pozo"</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> for Latin/jazz group and symphony orchestra, conducted by Amram, will be performed in memory of </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Dizzy Gillespie</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> with guest soloists </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Candido</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> (</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>congas</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>) and </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Bobby Sanabria</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> (</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>timbales</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>), with Amram himself on piano, penny whistles and percussion. </b></span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b> </span><b> </b></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>The evening will also mark the New York premiere of an excerpt from the new DVD of Amram's 1968 comic opera </b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>12th Night</b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> with a libretto by the late </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Joe Papp, </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>and will be introduced by </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Bernard Gersten</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>, Executive Producer of the </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Lincoln Center</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Theater</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> and former co-producer with Joe Papp of the </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>New York Shakespeare Festival.</b></span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"></span></b></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Selections from Amram's movie soundtracks, including </b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Splendor in the Gras</b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>s</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> (1960), and the New York premiere of a selection from Amram's score for </b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>The Manchurian Candidate</b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> (1962) will be performed by the Brooklyn Conservatory Jazz Ensemble directed by </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Earl McIntyre</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>. The Brooklyn Conservatory Jazz & Gospel Choirs directed by </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Renee Manning </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>will also perform. Additional favorites of Amram's jazz, Latin, Middle-Eastern and world music compositions will be played in memory of </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Thelonious Monk.</b></span></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; min-height: 20px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b> </span><b> </b></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>The star-studded salute will also include introductions by Amram's friends from the world of theater, film and music, including actors </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Keir Dullea</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>(2001: A Space Odyssey)</b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>, </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>John Ventimiglia</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>(The Sopranos)</b></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>, </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Malachy McCourt </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>and</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>performers from the</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> Stella Adler Studio of Acting, </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>as well as filmed 80th birthday wishes from </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Pete Seeger</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>, </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Arlo Guthrie</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>, </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Willie Nelson</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>, members of the </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>New York Philharmonic</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>, and friends and colleagues from around the country. </b></span></span></div></div></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; 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</b> </span><b> </b></span></div></div></div></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Didot; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Guest musicians will include </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>John McEuen</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band), </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>David Broza</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>, </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Josh White Jr.</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>, </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Larry Kerwin</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> (Black 47), </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>The Imani Winds</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>, the</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> Amram Family Band</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> and current members and alumni of Amram's quartets from the past 40 years as well as surprise guests. The concert will be filmed by </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Lawrence Kraman</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b> for his documentary film </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><i><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5v6MeanQ28"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>David Amram: The First 80 Years</b></span></a></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>.</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>For tickets, </b></span><a href="http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6249-david-amram-the-first-80-years-"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>click here</b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>. For more about David Amram, </b></span><a href="http://www.davidamram.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>here</b></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>.</b></span></span></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com