David Amram Classical & Jazz Compositions

International Stretto Piano Festival Day 3

Narrow Keys, Broad Minds, No Boundaries

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David Amram returns for the tenth time to Symphony Space to perform with his Jazz Quintet. Thomas Weaver will also present three of Amram’s most popular classical piano compositions.

Program:

The Wind and the Rain for viola and piano
Sonata for Piano
Greenwich Village Portraits for saxophone and piano

Featuring Thomas Weaver, piano, Consuelo Sherba, viola & Ken Radnofsky, saxophone

Intermission

St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins)
Waltz for Arthur Miller's "After the Fall"
Theme from "Splendor in the Grass"
Les Ouiseux de Montparnasse with Alexander Calder Story*
Two Readings of Kerouac with Adira Amram
"Pull My Daisy" collaboration with Jack Kerouac

Featuring David Amram, Adira Amram, Adam Amram, Kevin Twigg, Jerome Harris, and Rene Hart

*Written in Paris 1954-54 during David's friendship with Terry Southern and the Calder family

Program subject to change