Don't miss out on David Amram's 75th Birthday Concert, this Saturday, November 19 at the Tarrytown Music Hall!
On Saturday, November 19 at 8PM, Jazz Forum Arts will present Amram Jam II, celebrating David Amram's 75thBirthday at the historic Tarrytown Music Hall. Tickets are only $35 for Adults, $30 for Senior Citizens 65+ & College Students with ID and $10 for children 12 and under.
David Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works,written many scores for Broadway, theater and film, including the classic scores for the films “Splendor in The Grass" and “The Manchurian Candidate;" two operas, including the ground-breaking Holocaust opera “The Final Ingredient;" and the score for the landmark 1959 documentary “Pull My Daisy," narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac. He is also the author of two books, Vibrations, an autobiography, and “Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac," a memoir.
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, 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 recently premiered by Sir James Galway, who also plans to record it.He is also completing his third book “Nine Lives of a Musical Cat."
Today, as he has for over fifty years, Amram continues to compose music while traveling the world as a conductor, soloist, bandleader, visiting scholar, and narrator in five languages. He is also currently working with author Frank McCourt on a new setting of the Mass, “Missa Manhattan," as well as on a symphony commissioned by the Guthrie Foundation, “Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie."
Amram and his son live on their family farm in upstate New York, when not on tour.
Amram's webpage is http://www.davidamram.com
--------------------------------------- David will be joined on stage throughout the evening by many special guests, including guitarist Vic Juris, drummer Jimmy Madison, Grammy- award winning clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera, comedian Jerry Stiller actor John Ventimiglia, and many more! --------------------------------------- A portion of the proceeds from this concert will be donated to the Jazz Foundation of America (http://www.jazzfoundation.org/) to help musicians in the Gulf States replace their instruments. ---------------------------------------
Tickets are now on sale for:
Dave Brubeck, Saturday, May 6th at 8PM, at the Tarrytown Music Hall.
Gato Barbieri on Friday, May 12 at 8PM at the Pace Downtown Micheal Schimmel Center for the Arts, NYC, and on Saturday, May 13th at 8PM at the Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill NY.
Visit http://www.tradenets.com/SCRIPTS/JAZZ/tktsales.cfm to Order tickets for any of these concerts!
--------------------------------------- The Tarrytown Music Hall (http://www.tarrytownmusichall.org) is located at 13 Main St in Tarrytown, NY.
Tickets for all Jazz Forum Arts (http://www.jazzforumarts.org/) Concerts are available online at the Jazz Forum Arts Tickets page or by calling 888-99-BEBOP(23267). --------------------------------------- Jazz Forum Arts (http://www.jazzforumarts.org/) is sponsored by the Westchester Arts Council (http://www.westarts.com
Click here (http://www.jazzforumarts.org/charter.htm) to learn more about how you can help support Jazz Forum Arts!
On Saturday, November 19 at 8PM, Jazz Forum Arts will present Amram Jam II, celebrating David Amram's 75thBirthday at the historic Tarrytown Music Hall. Tickets are only $35 for Adults, $30 for Senior Citizens 65+ & College Students with ID and $10 for children 12 and under.
David Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works,written many scores for Broadway, theater and film, including the classic scores for the films “Splendor in The Grass" and “The Manchurian Candidate;" two operas, including the ground-breaking Holocaust opera “The Final Ingredient;" and the score for the landmark 1959 documentary “Pull My Daisy," narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac. He is also the author of two books, Vibrations, an autobiography, and “Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac," a memoir.
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, 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 recently premiered by Sir James Galway, who also plans to record it.He is also completing his third book “Nine Lives of a Musical Cat."
Today, as he has for over fifty years, Amram continues to compose music while traveling the world as a conductor, soloist, bandleader, visiting scholar, and narrator in five languages. He is also currently working with author Frank McCourt on a new setting of the Mass, “Missa Manhattan," as well as on a symphony commissioned by the Guthrie Foundation, “Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie."
Amram and his son live on their family farm in upstate New York, when not on tour.
Amram's webpage is http://www.davidamram.com
--------------------------------------- David will be joined on stage throughout the evening by many special guests, including guitarist Vic Juris, drummer Jimmy Madison, Grammy- award winning clarinetist Paquito D'Rivera, comedian Jerry Stiller actor John Ventimiglia, and many more! --------------------------------------- A portion of the proceeds from this concert will be donated to the Jazz Foundation of America (http://www.jazzfoundation.org/) to help musicians in the Gulf States replace their instruments. ---------------------------------------
Tickets are now on sale for:
Dave Brubeck, Saturday, May 6th at 8PM, at the Tarrytown Music Hall.
Gato Barbieri on Friday, May 12 at 8PM at the Pace Downtown Micheal Schimmel Center for the Arts, NYC, and on Saturday, May 13th at 8PM at the Paramount Center for the Arts, Peekskill NY.
Visit http://www.tradenets.com/SCRIPTS/JAZZ/tktsales.cfm to Order tickets for any of these concerts!
--------------------------------------- The Tarrytown Music Hall (http://www.tarrytownmusichall.org) is located at 13 Main St in Tarrytown, NY.
Tickets for all Jazz Forum Arts (http://www.jazzforumarts.org/) Concerts are available online at the Jazz Forum Arts Tickets page or by calling 888-99-BEBOP(23267). --------------------------------------- Jazz Forum Arts (http://www.jazzforumarts.org/) is sponsored by the Westchester Arts Council (http://www.westarts.com
Click here (http://www.jazzforumarts.org/charter.htm) to learn more about how you can help support Jazz Forum Arts!
For more information contact All About Jazz.
