The Many Worlds of David Amram

Renaissance Man of American Music
Herausgeber: Birkenkamp, Dean

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a wide-ranging exploration of Amram's work and influence, situating the composer in the context of today's international culture. It shows how Amram's proficiencies in spontaneous, on-stage music creation enriches his formal classical composing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 776g
• ISBN-13: 9781032290331
• ISBN-10: 1032290331
• Artikelnr.: 68101627

Autorenporträt

Dean Birkenkamp has worked for 44 years in book publishing. Currently he is a Senior Editor with Routledge Publishers. He was the Founder and President of Paradigm Publishers, where he and his staff were fortunate to publish more than 800 books by leading scholars, journalists, musicians, and public intellectuals. An amateur pianist, he studied anthropology and music theory and composition at the University of Illinois-Champagne-Urbana. His previous book is Uncommon Sense from the Writings of Howard Zinn, with Howard Zinn and Wanda Rhudy.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introductions
1. How to Explain David Amram? by Dean Birkenkamp
2. "All Joy" An Introduction to the Life-Artistry of David Amram, by
Gary Lippman
Part II: David Amram's Symphonic and Chamber Compositions
3. Amram's Concert Hall Compositions, by Dean Birkenkamp
4. David Amram's Chamber Music, by Elmira Darvarova
5. Premiering New Amram Compositions, by Kenneth Radnofsky
6. This Land: Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie, by Laura
Schulkind
7. Sir James Galway: Commissioning and Premiering Giants of the Night,
by Keith Marshall
8. Conducting Amram's Violin Concerto, by JoAnn Falletta
9. Letting an Orchestra Feel Free and Inspired: The Art of Amram's
Conducting, by Howard Wall
10. A Promising Old Composer: The Power of Creativity in Later Life, by
John Leland
11. Beethoven to Boxing: Artistry in Two Worlds, by Larry Merchant
Part III: Opera and Theater Contributions of David Amram
12. From Theater to Opera, by Dean Birkenkamp
13. David Amram: A Jewish Life in Music: The Final Ingredient and other
Important Compositions, by Jeff Janeczko
14. The Essence of David Amram, by Keir Dullea
15. Remembering the Premiere of Amram's Opera Twelfth Night, by
Christopher Alden and David Alden
16. Filming Twelfth Night, by Lawrence Kraman
Part IV: Amram the Jazz Performer and Composer
17. A Lifetime in Jazz, by Dean Birkenkamp
18. David Amram's Early Jazz Years and Collaborations, by Marc Myers
19. Amram and Cuba: Varieties of Afro-Cuban and Latin Musics, by Arturo
O'Farrill
20. Innovations: Jamming with Amram Across the Decades, by Mark
Morganelli
21. David Amram is a Musical Instrument, by Malachy McCourt
22. Now is the Time as Creative Manifestation of Consciousness,
by Hugh Ragin
23. No More Walls: The Ever-Wider World of David Amram, by David Cole
Part V: The Songs of David Amram
24. From Orchestral Compositions to Spontaneous Lyrics, by Dean
Birkenkamp
25. A Composer's Way with Words, by Hassan Melehy
26. The Songs of David Amram: Jazz, Classical, Film, and Operatic
Compositions, by Gerald Bieritz
27. Scat and Make-Up Songs: The Art of One-Time Only Rap Reporting, by
David Amram
28. Bourbon is Vegetarian, By Kurt Elling and David Amram
Part VI: The Whole Wide World of Amram's Folk Performance
29. Performing the World's Music, by Dean Birkenkamp
30. Melding Folk and Symphonic: Commissioning This Land, by Nora Guthrie
31. Remembering Odetta: 40 Years of Midnight Adventures, with Kris
Kristofferson, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Others, by David Amram
32. Peforming Folk Music in Many Venues, by John McEuen
33. The Dean of Hangout-ology at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, by
Deana McCloud
34. A Unique Performer in the Folk World, by Barry Ollman
35. Musical Adventures with David Amram, by Radoslav Lorkovic
36. David Amram Doesn't Play Music, by John Cooper
Part VII: Amram the Author-and His Collaborations with Writers
37. David Amram's Literary Endeavors, by Dean Birkenkamp
38. Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, David Amram, by Ronald Martinetti
39. Let Us Remember: Review of the Cantata by Langston Hughes and David
Amram, by Paul Hertelendy
40. Vibrations, Musical Differences, Life with Others, by Charles Lemert
41. On Amram's Book Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat, by Frank McCourt
42. "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
43. From the Village to Hollywood, by Dean Birkenkamp
44. Frankenheimer, Sinatra, and the Scoring of The Manchurian Candidate,
by Neil Hickey
45. The Manchurian Candidate: The Novel, the Film, the Music, by Geoff
Wills
46. Cinema's Elusive Musical Poet: Scoring Splendor in the Grass, by
Steve Vertlieb
Part IX: Amram's Legacy: Mixing Musical Styles and Performance
Traditions
47. Hearing a Singular Sound in the Universe, by Dean Birkenkamp
48. Amram's Musical Bouillabaisse, by Larry Kirwan
49. At Home Around the World, by David Amram
50. David Amram and Native American Musical Performance, by Matoaka
Little Eagle
51. Native Flutes and Friendship, by Louis Mofsie
52. Diamonds in the Sidewalk: Kerouac, Amram, and the Bells of Hell, by
Robin Hirsch
53. The Village and the Man Who Makes It Live On, By Elizabeth Thomson
54. An Icon of Inclusion and Pioneer of World Music, by Douglas Brinkley
Part X: Coda
55. You are Only as Old as You Make Other People Feel, by David Amram