September 29, 2018, at 2pm at the Jefferson Market Library
Greenwich Village through the eyes of two of its greatest poets: “Kissing in the Village: Edna St Vincent Millay on Bedford Street” and “Jack Kerouac: Blues in the Afternoon”
With scholar and writer Lucy McDiarmid and composer and multi-instrumentalist David Amram, who played with Kerouac for New York City’s first-ever jazz/poetry readings. World premiere performance by Kenneth Radnofsky and Yoshiko Kline of a new multi-media version of Amram’s Greenwich Village Portraits, composed for saxophone and piano with a video accompanying the piece, created by Conrad Kline.
FREE EVENT – reserve places for Village Voices
Millay in NYC 1920s (courtesy of the Millay Society, millay.org)
Jack Kerouac right with David Amram left and Allen Ginsberg at the Hansa Art Gallery New York 1959 courtesy David Amram Archive
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