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~Mystic Independent Theater is proud to sponsor~
Hygienic Art, New London Music Fest, Mystic Independent Theater and Hozomeen Press are proud to partner in presenting a special evening with our dear friend David Amram featuring a rare screening of the film Pull My Daisy (featuring Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and narration by Jack Kerouac). David Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film, including the classic scores for the films Splendor in The Grass and The Manchurian Candidate; two operas, including the groundbreaking Holocaust opera The Final Ingredient; and the score for the landmark 1959 documentary Pull My Daisy, narrated by novelist Jack Kerouac, as well as performing with Jack Kerouac on the first poetry reading in New York in 1957 at the Brata Art Gallery on East 10th Street. He is also the author of three books, Vibrations, an autobiography, Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac, a memoir, and Upbeat: Nine Lives of a Musical Cat published in the fall of 2007 by Paradigm Publishers. He is also recognized as a celebrated jazz, folk, Latin, Middle Eastern, African, Celtic and Native American music artist for more than fifty years; considered a musical progenitor of `world music’ (decades before the term existed); and has even recorded a country album with himself as singer, guitarist, composer and lyricist. The Boston Globe has described him as “The Renaissance Man of American Music,” while the New York Times has labeled him “A One-Man Folk Festival…who was multi-cultural before multi-culturalism existed!" A pioneer player of jazz French horn, he is also a virtuoso on piano, numerous flutes and whistles, percussion, and dozens of folkloric instruments from 25 countries, as well as an inventive, funny improvisational lyricist and scat singer. He has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, who chose him as The New York Philharmonic's first composer-in-residence, with Joseph Papp, who chose him as the first composer-in-residence of New York's Public Theatre and Shakespeare in the Park. One of Amram's recent works "Giants of the Night," commissioned and premiered by Sir James Galway, is a flute concerto dedicated to the memory of Charlie Parker, Jack Kerouac and Dizzy Gillespie, three American artists whom Amram knew well and worked with. Over the past 60 years, David Amram has performed and/or recorded with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, Oscar Pettiford, Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, Kenny Dorham, Betty Carter, Stan Getz, Patti Smith, Gerry Mulligan, Willie Nelson, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vassar Clements, Odetta, Tito Puente, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Earl Fatha’ Hines, Johnny Depp, Warren Zevon, Ray Barretto, Jerry Jeff Walker, Paquito D’Rivera, Arturo Sandoval, Pepper Adams, Mongo Santamaria, Pete Seeger, Thad Jones, Steve Martin, Floyd Red Crow Westerman, John McEuen, Los Papines and Machito, in addition to hundreds of amazing indigenous musicians and singers from all over Africa, Asia, South America and Europe. His two most recent orchestral works are "Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie" commissioned by the Guthrie Foundation which premiered September 29, 2007; and Three Songs: A Concerto for Piano and Orchestra which premiered in January of 2009. In 2008, Amram was chosen as the composer-in-residence for the Democratic National Committee's Convention held in Denver. On a more personal note, David Amram has collaborated with Mystic Independent Theater's director Casey Cyr Gash on many poetry and music events, and musical recordings from New York City to New Orleans. Recordings include: Shiva, and the upcoming CD Hozomeen JAM produced by Casey's label Calque Cinema. The final CD will feature 39 tracks by poets published by New London's Hozomeen Press, founded by Rich Martin. We are very honored to have David Amram coming to Connecticut, and hope you will all visit the Art Park to see him!
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