Highlights of 2013 Calendar
January 7 - 8:30-11 pm, Cornelia St. Café, New York City; New Year's Celebration, Amram's 58th Year in Greenwich Village; Amram performs and tells stories about the music he has composed celebrating a half century of collaborations with playwrights, choreographers, authors, poets and musicians from the 1950s through today's innovative young artists; Featuring Amram's Quartet, (Kevin Twigg on drums and glockenspiel, Rene Hart on bass, Adam Amram on congas), actor John Ventimiglia (of HBO's The Sopranos) and special surprise guests
January 10 - 7:30 pm, The Buddhist Association for Peace, Culture and Education, New York; Amram will speak about the ways that music can achieve peace among people and will share some of his experiences drawn from his travels around the world where music has served as a passport for understanding; He will give some brief musical demonstrations from Egypt, Africa, Israel, the Khyber Pass, Sri Lanka, China, Ireland, Native America, Guatemala and across the United States and Canada
January 28 - February 1 - Denver, CO • January 29 & 30, Amram edits live recordings for a new cd of his Symphonic Variations On A Song By Woody Guthrie and Theme and Variations on Red River Valley for Flute and Strings, performed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Amram in September of 2012 • February 1, Amram returns as the featured guest performing classics of jazz and world music for the Annual Neal Cassady Day • More to be announced • For complete information of Amram's Annual Rocky Mountain Tour, contact Douglas Yeager at yeagerprod@aol.com
February 2-9 -- Jackson, MI; Amram has been selected to be the Artist In Residence at Millsaps College where he will host an evening of his classic chamber music compositions, screenings of two of the classic films he scored, The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Pull My Daisy (1959), a screening his opera The Final Ingredient, An Opera of the Holocaust, (commissioned and premiered in 1965 by ABC Network Television), and highlights from his comic opera, 12th Night • Amram will also be holding a seminar on the artists from Mississippi with whom he has collaborated and a jam session honoring the Mississippi roots of 20th century blues, jazz, folk, rock and country music and be on hand to answer questions after the Mississippi premiere of Lawrence Kraman's new documentary about his life and work, David Amram, The First 80 Years • More details to be announced
February 10-18 -- New Mexico State University in Las Cruces; Amram will appear as the Composer and Artist In Residence hosting formal concerts of his chamber music, leading an Amram Jam Session, speaking of the gifts of New Mexico's Mexican American and Native American musical cultures to the world at large, and speaking about his collaborations with leading figures in the arts during the last fifty seven years • There will also be screenings of two of the classic films he scored, The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Pull My Daisy (1959), as well as the New Mexico premiere of Lawrence Kraman's new documentary about his life and work, David Amram, The First 80 Years • More details to be announced
January 10 - 7:30 pm, The Buddhist Association for Peace, Culture and Education, New York; Amram will speak about the ways that music can achieve peace among people and will share some of his experiences drawn from his travels around the world where music has served as a passport for understanding; He will give some brief musical demonstrations from Egypt, Africa, Israel, the Khyber Pass, Sri Lanka, China, Ireland, Native America, Guatemala and across the United States and Canada
January 28 - February 1 - Denver, CO • January 29 & 30, Amram edits live recordings for a new cd of his Symphonic Variations On A Song By Woody Guthrie and Theme and Variations on Red River Valley for Flute and Strings, performed by the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Amram in September of 2012 • February 1, Amram returns as the featured guest performing classics of jazz and world music for the Annual Neal Cassady Day • More to be announced • For complete information of Amram's Annual Rocky Mountain Tour, contact Douglas Yeager at yeagerprod@aol.com
February 2-9 -- Jackson, MI; Amram has been selected to be the Artist In Residence at Millsaps College where he will host an evening of his classic chamber music compositions, screenings of two of the classic films he scored, The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Pull My Daisy (1959), a screening his opera The Final Ingredient, An Opera of the Holocaust, (commissioned and premiered in 1965 by ABC Network Television), and highlights from his comic opera, 12th Night • Amram will also be holding a seminar on the artists from Mississippi with whom he has collaborated and a jam session honoring the Mississippi roots of 20th century blues, jazz, folk, rock and country music and be on hand to answer questions after the Mississippi premiere of Lawrence Kraman's new documentary about his life and work, David Amram, The First 80 Years • More details to be announced
February 10-18 -- New Mexico State University in Las Cruces; Amram will appear as the Composer and Artist In Residence hosting formal concerts of his chamber music, leading an Amram Jam Session, speaking of the gifts of New Mexico's Mexican American and Native American musical cultures to the world at large, and speaking about his collaborations with leading figures in the arts during the last fifty seven years • There will also be screenings of two of the classic films he scored, The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and Pull My Daisy (1959), as well as the New Mexico premiere of Lawrence Kraman's new documentary about his life and work, David Amram, The First 80 Years • More details to be announced
March 8-10 -- Lowell, MA; Amram leads and participates in a series of concerts, seminars, jam sessions and readings with music, celebrating his friendship and musical collaborations with Jack Kerouac as part of Lowell's honoring of Kerouac's 91st Birthday • Following the success of their recent presentation at the Québec Festival du Jazz et Kerouac, Amram will accompany Lowell's leading authority on Lowell's Francophone culture Roger Brunelle in readings with music of recently published works by Kerouac which were written in French; For more information click here
March 18 + 19 -- Far Brook School, Short Hills, NJ; Programs for its students about the folkloric roots of music as a basis for contemporary classical composition; Violinist Ashley Horne, pianist Erasmia Voukelatos and percussionist Glen Fittin will perform with Amram his Native American Portraits for Violin, Piano and Percussion among other works
March 29 -- New York University; Guest Speaker for the symposium presented by the Fales Library in Celebration of NYU's Acquisition and Processing of the Larry Rivers Papers • Amram's will discuss visual artist Larry River's work as a musician and their collaborations from 1955 until Rivers' death
April 1 -- 8:30-11 pm, Cornelia St. Café, New York City; Amram performs and tells stories about the music he has composed celebrating a half century of collaborations with playwrights, choreographers, authors, poets and musicians from the 1950s through today's innovative young artists; Featuring Amram's Quartet, (Kevin Twigg on drums and glockenspiel, Rene Hart on bass, Adam Amram on congas), actor John Ventimiglia (of HBO's The Sopranos) and special surprise guests
April 3-5 -- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill • Amram will give seminars for the English Department about creative writing and interdisciplinary collaborations, including his work with Jack Kerouac, Arthur Miller and others • Amram will also give a concert at the Carrboro Arts Center American Roots Series and other activities to be announced
April 18 -- 7-8 pm + 8-9 pm, Portsmouth, NH • The Press Room
April 22 -- 12 pm, New York City • Interview with Sara Fisko for her Jazz Loft documentary film, Lumiere Productions
April 23 -- Interview for Brattleboro Radio Station
April 25 -- New York City • Afternoon concert w The Amigos
April 26 -- 8:00 pm • Philadelphia, PA • Amram headlines and performs with The Amigos for an evening of folk, jazz and world music at the Pslam Salon hosted by WXPN's Gene Shay
April 23 -- Interview for Brattleboro Radio Station
April 25 -- New York City • Afternoon concert w The Amigos
April 26 -- 8:00 pm • Philadelphia, PA • Amram headlines and performs with The Amigos for an evening of folk, jazz and world music at the Pslam Salon hosted by WXPN's Gene Shay
April 28 -- 8 pm, Putney, Vermont • Headlining folk music concert and performing with his daughter Alana Amram and her band The Rough Gems
May 2 -- 12 pm, NYC • Meeting with Jacques D'Amboise, founder of the National Dance Institute
May 3 -- 4-6 pm at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA • Amram is a featured participant in Salem State University's 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Kerouac Symposium, hosting a screening of the film Pull My Daisy (1959)
May 5 -- 12 pm, On the rooftop of the Library Motel, NYC • Amram reads from his books for Literary Manhattan along with readings by prizewinning author Joyce Johnson • Free admission!
May 2 -- 12 pm, NYC • Meeting with Jacques D'Amboise, founder of the National Dance Institute
May 3 -- 4-6 pm at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA • Amram is a featured participant in Salem State University's 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Kerouac Symposium, hosting a screening of the film Pull My Daisy (1959)
May 5 -- 12 pm, On the rooftop of the Library Motel, NYC • Amram reads from his books for Literary Manhattan along with readings by prizewinning author Joyce Johnson • Free admission!
May 6 -- 8:30-11 pm, Cornelia St. Café, New York City; Amram performs and tells stories about the music he has composed celebrating a half century of collaborations with playwrights, choreographers, authors, poets and musicians from the 1950s through today's innovative young artists; Featuring Amram's Quartet, (Kevin Twigg on drums and glockenspiel, Rene Hart on bass, Adam Amram on congas), actor John Ventimiglia (of HBO's The Sopranos) and special surprise guests
May 12 -- Interview for feature film Wisdom Keepers: Life, Longevity and the Pursuit of Happiness • Other interviewees include Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Stephen Sondheim, Yoko Ono, Joel Gray, Warren Buffett and others
May 25 -- 9 pm, NYC, Theatre For The New City • Amram's tenth appearance at the Annual Festival of the Lower East Side • Free admission!
May 30 -- 8:30 pm, Joe's Pub, NYC • Guest appearance with Morley and her band
May 31-June 13 -- Composing Greenwich Village Sketches for Boston Symphony's classical saxophonist Ken Radnofsky • The three movements of this pieces are in memory of three of Amram's collaborators and close friends Arthur Miller, Odetta and Frank McCourt • Amram will also be working on his new piece Three Excerpts from Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" for baritone and piano to be premiered by singer James Martin at the New York Festival of Song in the Spring 2014
June 14-16 -- Amram returns for his 12th appearance at the Clearwater Festival held in Croton-On-Hudson after being awarded the Pete and Toshi Seeger Power of Song Award last fall, to perform with Pete Seeger, Josh White Jr and Amram's own Quartet
May 12 -- Interview for feature film Wisdom Keepers: Life, Longevity and the Pursuit of Happiness • Other interviewees include Tony Bennett, Harry Belafonte, Stephen Sondheim, Yoko Ono, Joel Gray, Warren Buffett and others
May 25 -- 9 pm, NYC, Theatre For The New City • Amram's tenth appearance at the Annual Festival of the Lower East Side • Free admission!
May 30 -- 8:30 pm, Joe's Pub, NYC • Guest appearance with Morley and her band
May 31-June 13 -- Composing Greenwich Village Sketches for Boston Symphony's classical saxophonist Ken Radnofsky • The three movements of this pieces are in memory of three of Amram's collaborators and close friends Arthur Miller, Odetta and Frank McCourt • Amram will also be working on his new piece Three Excerpts from Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" for baritone and piano to be premiered by singer James Martin at the New York Festival of Song in the Spring 2014
June 14-16 -- Amram returns for his 12th appearance at the Clearwater Festival held in Croton-On-Hudson after being awarded the Pete and Toshi Seeger Power of Song Award last fall, to perform with Pete Seeger, Josh White Jr and Amram's own Quartet
June 17-20 -- Amram returns for third time as Guest Composer for Maurice Peress' Annual Conductor's Workshop at Queen's College
July 2-8 -- Amram returns to the Center For Arts and Media Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany for a series of concerts, seminars and the European debut of Lawrence Kraman's documentary film David Amram, The First 80 Years
July 10-14 -- Amram returns for the ninth time to perform at the Annual Woody Guthrie Festival in Okemah, OK
August 4 -- 8:30-11 pm, Cornelia St. Café, New York City; New Year's Celebration, Amram's 58th Year in Greenwich Village; Amram performs and tells stories about the music he has composed celebrating a half century of collaborations with playwrights, choreographers, authors, poets and musicians from the 1950s through today's innovative young artists; Featuring Amram's Quartet, (Kevin Twigg on drums and glockenspiel, Rene Hart on bass, Adam Amram on congas), actor John Ventimiglia (of HBO's The Sopranos) and special surprise guests
September 7 -- 8 pm, Symphony Space, NYC • An Evening of David Amram's Chamber Music performed by members of Elmira Darvarova's New York Chamber Music Festival, which will also be recorded to accompany last year's all-Amram concert with the New York Chamber Music Festival
November 25 -- 8 pm, Lincoln Center • Amram appears with The Amigos for their Generations In Jazz Festival, hosted by Jazz at Lincoln Center
Amram will also be working on his 4th book "David Amram: The Next 80 Years," a commissioned classical work for the Boston Symphony's saxophonist Kenneth Radnofsky and a new series of recordings of his chamber, orchestral and jazz/world music compositions