{"id":142,"date":"2018-06-29T11:04:51","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T11:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/blog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2019-08-22T09:24:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T09:24:48","slug":"the-village-trip-is-honored-to-announce-david-amram-as-artist-in-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/the-village-trip-is-honored-to-announce-david-amram-as-artist-in-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"The Village Trip is honored to announce David Amram as Artist-in-Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"
David Amram \u2013 whose distinguished seventy-year career embraces every sphere of music and who has collaborated with such diverse figures as Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Miller, Charles Mingus, Hunter S Thompson and Willie Nelson \u2013 is to be Artist-in-Residence at The Village Trip.<\/p>\n
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A multi-instrumentalist, composer, conductor, band-leader and multi-lingual narrator who invented jazz\/poetry, Amram began composing in 1948 for the Howard University Theater Company in Washington DC. Two years later he joined the city\u2019s National Symphony Orchestra as a French Horn player. He has been Composer-in-Residence for Joseph Papp\u2019s New York Shakespeare Festival, as well as the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Centre.
\nIn 1957, he created and performed in the first ever jazz\/poetry readings in New York City with novelist Jack Kerouac, a moment he will revisit during The Village Trip. As well as making his own unique contributions to the festival, Amram will also \u201cbe on hand to add spice wherever I am needed.\u201d<\/p>\n
He will be \u201cin residence\u201d at the Washington Square Hotel, home base and principal partner of The Village Trip, a new festival which will celebrate the history and heritage of Greenwich Village, its rich and diverse music, literature, drama and \u2013 in due course \u2013 much besides.<\/p>\n
David Amram, whose myriad achievements include the score for the 1960s screen classics The Manchurian Candidate<\/em> and Splendor in the Grass<\/em> and, more recently, the symphonic composition THIS LAND: Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie<\/em>, commissioned by Nora Guthrie to mark the 75th anniversary of a song that\u2019s regarded as America\u2019s second national anthem, said: \u201cAs an old Villager, this will be a crowning achievement for me and hopefully encourage all young people attending to work hard and pursue what they love to do.\u201d<\/p>\n Amram\u2019s many awards include Folk Alliance International\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award and New York\u2019s Highlights in Jazz Lifetime Achievement Award. The New York Times<\/em> hailed him as “A One-Man Folk Festival,” and a musician who was “multi-cultural before multi-culturalism existed!” For the Boston Globe<\/em> he is simply \u201cThe Renaissance Man of American Music.\u201d<\/p>\n