Multi-instrumentalist and creative force, David Amram has been described by the Boston Globe as “the Renaissance Man of American music.” To celebrate his 91st birthday, Amram will appear on Friday, November 19 at the Jazz Forum in Tarrytown, New York at 7 PM and 9:30 PM and on Sunday, December 5 at 8 PM at Theater for the New City in Manhattan.
At the Jazz Forum, Amram’s quartet will be Kevin Twigg, Rene Hart and Adam Amram, joined by Jerome Harris, Erik Lawrence and other special guests. At Theater for the New City, his quartet and a throng of old and new friends perform, including other instrumentalists, vocalists, song writers, actors, poets and dancers in an all night-early morning marathon.
Amram has composed over 100 orchestral and chamber works, written two operas, and many scores for theatre and films. He has collaborated with such notables as Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Sir James Galway, Jack Kerouac, Charles Mingus, Arthur Miller, Odetta, Wynton Marsalis , Pete Seeger, Betty Carter, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Joy Harjo, Elia Kazan, Eugene Ormandy and Tito Puente. Amram is now in the midst of composing two new classical chamber music pieces, as well as guest conducting, writing his fourth book, performing with his jazz quartet and working with Lawrence Kraman for his new film, Amram@90: Still a Promising Young Composer.
For more information and tickets to the show at the Jazz Forum, go to www.jazzforumarts.org
For tickets to the December 9 show, go to www.theaterforthenewcity.net
Theater for the New City on 1st Avenue between East 9th and 9th and East 10th Street in New York City
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