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The Beat goes on for composer David Amram
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Classical Notes
You can get a sense of the breadth and diversity of David Amram's
career from his recent composition "Giants of the Night." Each of the
movements is dedicated to an artistic "giant" whom Amram knew and
worked with. The first and third movements are dedicated,
respectively, to two bebop innovators: Charlie Parker and Dizzy
Gillespie. The second is a remembrance of Jack Kerouac and
interweaves two French-Canadian folk songs that Kerouac taught him.
"He used to sing them to me, usually very late at night," Amram
recalls over the phone.
You wouldn't normally associate any of those ...
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