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

Contents

• 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
• Performing Folk Music in Many Venues, by John McEuen
• Remembering Odetta: 40 Years of Midnight Adventures, with Kris Kristofferson, Ramblin’ Jack Elliot, and Others, by David Amram
• Melding Folk and Symphonic: Commissioning This Land, by Nora Guthrie
• 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 Note 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