The Many Worlds of David Amram

Name: The Many Worlds of David Amram | Renaissance Man of American Music
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Renaissance Man of American Music

Dean Birkenkamp(Herausgeber*in)

Routledge (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 25. September 2023

322 Seiten

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Beschreibung

In a career spanning 70 years, composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist David Amram is hailed today as the creator of symphonic works, chamber music, and two operas; as a brilliant jazz and vocal improviser; and the composer of memorable stage and film scores. He has collaborated with many leading musicians, playwrights, artists, actors, and writers, including Jack Kerouac, Woody Guthrie, Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Elmira Darvarova, Paul Newman, Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, and hundreds more. An innovator who blended jazz and global folk styles with classical traditions, Amram's career also emphasizes the creative potential of joyful collaboration. This new book offers a fascinating and wide-ranging picture of Amram's work and influence, from the rich, pioneering days of 1950s America to today's embrace of international cultures. It shows how Amram's gift as an on-stage spontaneous creator enriches his formal classical composing. With multi-media links for readers, it is possible to see and hear film and audio highlights and adventures described in this book by important conductors, musicians, performers, scholars, and journalists. This book is the essential guide to a major figure in contemporary music.

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"To do justice to the extraordinary depth and breadth of the art of the incomparable David Amram, one would need an encyclopedia--but this amazing book comes close. In essays of musicians from all over the globe a mosaic of this polymath emerges in vivid color. From chamber music to folk songs, from opera to the Jewish tradition, from jazz to Afro-Cuban culture, David's music glows with absolute genius and his radiant love of humanity. A beautiful must-read volume, brilliantly curated by Dean Birkenkamp."

-JoAnn Falletta, Grammy Award-winning Conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra

Praise for David Amram:

"Amram is a one-man folk festival...who was multicultural before multiculturalism existed."

-The New York Times

"Amram dazzled with his versatility .... One could be but awed by his range."

-The London Times

"David Amram is a musical catalyst and leader on a par with Leonard Bernstein, Pete Seeger, and Dizzy Gillespie."

-Minneapolis Star & Tribune

"A Godsend to those who believe in the power of music to change lives and inspire."

-Wynton Marsalis

"David Amram is one of the most versatile and skilled musicians America has ever produced."

-Washington Post

"David Amram is the Renaissance man of American music."

-The Boston Globe

"Truly American music. Amram, through his genius has built a marvelous musical tapestry, full of wonderful sounds and colors."

-Eugene Ormandy

"David Amram is a man of great humanity, wisdom, and generosity. A great story- teller. His music is magic. It takes you to another universe."

-Barbara Kopple, Academy Award-winning film maker

{Amram has} engaged with almost every identifiable genre - jazz, folk, rock, country, blues, Latin, the many variants of native America, to name only some. This composer's lifelong romance with music of all colours, creeds and cultures has been a passionate affair. It has seen him promiscuously cross-fertilise the sounds of every continent in a simmering pot of melody and lyric, rhythm and rhyme, and I think Dean Birkenkamp's engrossing, many-layered overview does fine justice to this many-faceted man and his diverse attainments.

-Simon Warner, Research Fellow, University of Leeds, U. K., in Rock and Beat Generation

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Inhalt

Part I: Introductions

How to Explain David Amram? by Dean Birkenkamp

"All Joy" An Introduction to the Life-Artistry of David Amram, by Gary Lippman
Part II: David Amram's Symphonic and Chamber Compositions

Amram's Concert Hall Compositions, by Dean Birkenkamp

David Amram's Chamber Music, by Elmira Darvarova

Premiering New Amram Compositions, by Kenneth Radnofsky

This Land: Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie, by Laura Schulkind

Sir James Galway: Commissioning and Premiering Giants of the Night, by Keith Marshall

Conducting Amram's Violin Concerto, by JoAnn Falletta

Letting an Orchestra Feel Free and Inspired: The Art of Amram's Conducting, by Howard Wall

A Promising Old Composer: The Power of Creativity in Later Life, by John Leland

Beethoven to Boxing: Artistry in Two Worlds, by Larry Merchant
Part III: Opera and Theater Contributions of David Amram

From Theater to Opera, by Dean Birkenkamp

David Amram: A Jewish Life in Music: The Final Ingredient and other Important Compositions, by Jeff Janeczko

The Essence of David Amram, by Keir Dullea

Remembering the Premiere of Amram's Opera Twelfth Night, by Christopher Alden and David Alden

Filming Twelfth Night, by Lawrence Kraman
Part IV: Amram the Jazz Performer and Composer

A Lifetime in Jazz, by Dean Birkenkamp

David Amram's Early Jazz Years and Collaborations, by Marc Myers

Amram and Cuba: Varieties of Afro-Cuban and Latin Musics, by Arturo O'Farrill

Innovations: Jamming with Amram Across the Decades, by Mark Morganelli

David Amram is a Musical Instrument, by Malachy McCourt

Now is the Time as Creative Manifestation of Consciousness,
by Hugh Ragin

No More Walls: The Ever-Wider World of David Amram, by David Cole
Part V: The Songs of David Amram

From Orchestral Compositions to Spontaneous Lyrics, by Dean Birkenkamp

A Composer's Way with Words, by Hassan Melehy

The Songs of David Amram: Jazz, Classical, Film, and Operatic Compositions, by Gerald Bieritz

Scat and Make-Up Songs: The Art of One-Time Only Rap Reporting, by David Amram

Bourbon is Vegetarian, By Kurt Elling and David Amram
Part VI: The Whole Wide World of Amram's Folk Performance

Performing the World's Music, by Dean Birkenkamp
Melding Folk and Symphonic: Commissioning This Land, by Nora Guthrie

Remembering Odetta: 40 Years of Midnight Adventures, with Kris Kristofferson, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Others, by David Amram

Peforming Folk Music in Many Venues, by John McEuen

The Dean of Hangout-ology at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, by Deana McCloud

A Unique Performer in the Folk World, by Barry Ollman

Musical Adventures with David Amram, by Radoslav Lorkovic

David Amram Doesn't Play Music, by John Cooper
Part VII: Amram the Author-and His Collaborations with Writers

David Amram's Literary Endeavors, by Dean Birkenkamp

Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, David Amram, by Ronald Martinetti

Let Us Remember: Review of the Cantata by Langston Hughes and David Amram, by Paul Hertelendy

Vibrations, Musical Differences, Life with Others, by Charles Lemert

On Amram's Book Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat, by Frank McCourt

"Life is Even More Fun at 90" Amram and the Kerouac Legacy, by Holly George Warren
Part VIII: Hollywood and Beyond: Amram's Film Scores

From the Village to Hollywood, by Dean Birkenkamp

Frankenheimer, Sinatra, and the Scoring of The Manchurian Candidate, by Neil Hickey

The Manchurian Candidate: The Novel, the Film, the Music, by Geoff Wills

Cinema's Elusive Musical Poet: Scoring Splendor in the Grass, by Steve Vertlieb
Part IX: Amram's Legacy: Mixing Musical Styles and Performance Traditions

Hearing a Singular Sound in the Universe, by Dean Birkenkamp

Amram's Musical Bouillabaisse, by Larry Kirwan

At Home Around the World, by David Amram

David Amram and Native American Musical Performance, by Matoaka Little Eagle

Native Flutes and Friendship, by Louis Mofsie

Diamonds in the Sidewalk: Kerouac, Amram, and the Bells of Hell, by Robin Hirsch

The Village and the Man Who Makes It Live On, By Elizabeth Thomson

An Icon of Inclusion and Pioneer of World Music, by Douglas Brinkley
Part X: Coda

You are Only as Old as You Make Other People Feel, by David Amram

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