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Musically as important as Beethoven,
\nYet not regarded as such at all<\/h4>\n

So wrote Jack Kerouac in the 240th Chorus of Mexico City Blues<\/em>, speaking of Charlie \u201cBird\u201d Parker, whom he regarded as the perfect musician. But Jack\u2019s love of jazz did not diminish his great love for classical music and his knowledge of it. His innate musicianship, of course explains the music of his prose, and his ability to improvise words to music, as he did with his old friend David Amram.<\/p>\n

As part of Jack Kerouac 100, David gathers long-time friends \u2013 top-flight classical musicians with whom he has long worked and all of whom have played at Village Trip\u2019s in the past \u2013 for an afternoon of music that inspired the great novelist, and in turn inspires us. Works by J S Bach, Claude Debussy and Erik Satie \u2013 and by David himself, including a new composition commissioned to mark the centennial which receives its premiere at The Village Trip.<\/p>\n

Unaccompanied Suite<\/em>, J.S. Bach<\/strong>
\nKen Radnofsky<\/a>, alto saxophone<\/p>\n

Claire de Lune<\/em>, Claude Debussy \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>
\nYoshiko Kline, piano<\/p>\n

Gymnop\u00e9die No 1<\/em>, Eric Satie \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>
\nYoshiko Kline, piano<\/p>\n

The Wind and the Rain<\/em>, David Amram \u00a0<\/strong>
\nConsuelo Sherba<\/a>, viola; Yoshiko Kline, piano<\/p>\n

Greenwich Village Portraits<\/em>, David Amram \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong>
\nKen Radnofsky<\/a>, alto saxophone; Yoshiko Kline, piano<\/p>\n

Ah, Take Me Back to the Village<\/em>*, David Amram \u00a0<\/strong>
\nElizabeth Farnum, mezzo soprano; William Anderson<\/a> and Oren Fader<\/a> guitars<\/p>\n

*World Premiere Commissioned by the Robert Shapiro Fund for The Village Trip, celebrating Jack Kerouac’s 100th birthday. Text from Kerouac’s The Lonesome Traveler<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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David Amram writes:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

\"David<\/a>Jack’s favorite composer was Bach, just as he loved the\u00a0writings of\u00a0Dostoevsky, Cervantes, Victor Hugo,\u00a0Emily Bronte, Beaudelaire,\u00a0Dylan Thomas, Langston\u00a0Hughes and Thomas Wolfe. Because he was a lyric poet who adored the\u00a0classics of Europe as well as the wonders of the New
\nWorld, he embraced anything that touched his heart.<\/p>\n

Like Dante’s use of the terza rima<\/em>, Jack saw and heard the beauty of every day vernacular speech as a lasting form of communicating. He could have been a professor of comparative literature.<\/p>\n

He used that same discipline and love of storytelling and appreciation of people and places in all his formal writings, the same way that the composers, writers and artists of all genres have always done.<\/p>\n

And he did it in a way of his own that reflected his own sensibilities, rather than being concerned about being fashionable or au courant<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Decades\u00a0before the intellectual establishment understood the importance of jazz and the cultures that\u00a0created it, Kerouac had an innate understanding of this music as a profound\u00a0form\u00a0of expression that was classical in its own way.<\/p>\n

He was a natural musician and appreciated jazz, French-Canadian folk lore, Asian, Native and Latin-American music, and he could improvise words and music with ease.<\/p>\n

He was an avatar for Spontaneity and Formality and was a joy to play with as well as to compose for.<\/p>\n

And as an author, he wrote to engage the reader in the same way that improvising musicians of the 18th and 19th did when as composers \u2013 they wrote it down in the formal tradition try to make it feel natural, so that other musicians could be guests in their world and have those who listened to them feel welcome.<\/p>\n

We wrote several pieces together as well as those which we made up on the spot. Having set part of Lonesome Traveler in my cantata A Year in Our Land<\/em>\u00a0back in 1965 for four soloists, chorus and orchestra, it was a treat to revisit\u00a0Lonesome Traveler<\/em> fifty-five years later\u00a0and set some\u00a0of Jack’s words to music again.<\/p>\n

This splendid collection of his\u00a0recollections and observations celebrates the Greenwich Village of the then<\/em> and the Greenwich Village of now<\/em>.<\/p>\n

I am grateful to have had the chance to compose it and hope it inspires all artists to collaborate, work hard, tell their own stories in their own way and hope for the best.<\/p>\n

David Amram
\n<\/em>August 10, 2022<\/em>
\nBeacon NY<\/em><\/p>\n

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Jack Kerouac, Dody Muller, David Amram in New York City in 1959. Photo by John Cohen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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