Performance
Date
Conducting
the Memorial Festival Orchestra Sunday, June 11
Back for his um-teenth
appearance at Kerrville is composer, conductor,
and musician extraordinaire David Amram.
David
has collaborated with such notables as Leonard
Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Charles
Mingus, Dustin Hoffman, Thelonious Monk, Willie
Nelson, Jack Kerouac, Betty Carter, Odetta, Elia
Kazan, Arthur Miller, and Tito Puente. Since
being appointed first composer-in-residence with the
New York Philharmonic in 1966-67, he has become one
of the most acclaimed composers of his generation,
listed by BMI as one of the Twenty Most Performed
Composers of Concert Music in the United States
since 1974.
For
more information on David, visit www.fmp.com/amram
.
