{"id":5599,"date":"2022-08-02T06:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=5599"},"modified":"2022-09-02T12:05:09","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T16:05:09","slug":"the-village-trip-guitarfest-ahlets-go-back-to-the-village","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/event\/the-village-trip-guitarfest-ahlets-go-back-to-the-village\/","title":{"rendered":"The Village Trip GuitarFest:
Ah, Let\u2019s go Back to the Village"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Amram and his great friend Jack Kerouac caroused the Village in the 1950s and 60s. Amram \u2013 a living legend well known for his lush film scores for Elia Kazan\u2019s Splendor in the Grass<\/em> and Frankenheimer\u2019s Manchurian Candidate<\/em> \u2013 worked with Joseph Papp, and was Leonard Bernstein\u2019s first composer-in-residence at the New York Philharmonic.<\/p>\n

At GuitarFest: Ah, Let\u2019s go Back to the Village<\/strong>, Amram is part of an international contingent of composers setting poems by Village poets. In addition, Reyes Oteo<\/a>, from Malaga, Spain, sets poetry by Gamel Woolsey, who lived on Patchin Place in the 1920s and went on to spend many years near Malaga, where she is buried in the English cemetery. Israeli guitarist-composer Akiva Daniel sets poems by Masha Kaleko, who lived on Minetta Street. Kal\u00e9ko was twice a refugee, first from World War One, when her family fled Poland for Berlin. There she was a successful poet, published in German newspapers, until the Nazis forced her out of Germany.<\/p>\n

Village Poets: <\/strong>Jack Kerouac, Masha, Kal\u00e9ko, Louis Zukofsky, Gamel Woolsey, Djuana Barnes<\/p>\n

Village Composers:<\/strong> David Amram<\/a>, David Glaser, Harold Meltzer<\/a>, Gene Pritsker<\/a>, Elie Yarden, Victoria Bond<\/a>, William Anderson<\/a><\/p>\n

And works by Gary Philo, Frank Brickle, Reyes Oteo, Daniele Akiva, Klaus Ager, Damon Ferrante, William Anderson, Mark Delpriora, Richard Festinger, Richard Cameron Wolfe.<\/p>\n

Featuring<\/strong><\/p>\n