14 Jan No one can Beat Amram, the jazz genius…
David Amram has had an extraordinary life. He knew Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Pete Seeger, he played with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus and Thelonious Monk and worked with Leonard Bernstein and Elia Kazan among many, many others.
Amram is an astonishing musician. But he has also had a rich career as a composer. He has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber-music pieces, written many scores for Broadway theatre – including that for the stage version of On the Waterfront – and films – including Splendor in the Grass (1960) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – two operas, including the Holocaust opera The Final Ingredient and a comic opera of Twelfth Night….
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