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Part I: Introductions. How to Explain David Amram? / by Dean Birkenkamp ; "All Joy" An Introduction to the Life-Artistry of David Amram / by Gary Lippman

Part II: David Amram's Symphonic and Chamber Compositions. Amram's Concert Hall Compositions / by Dean Birkenkamp ; David Amram's Chamber Music / by Elmira Darvarova ; Premiering New Amram Compositions / by Kenneth Radnofsky ; This Land : Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie / by Laura Schulkind ; Sir James Galway : Commissioning and Premiering Giants of the Night / by Keith Marshall ; Conducting Amram's Violin Concerto / by JoAnn Falletta ; Letting an Orchestra Feel Free and Inspired : The Art of Amram's Conducting / by Howard Wall ; A Promising Old Composer : The Power of Creativity in Later Life / by John Leland ; Beethoven to Boxing : Artistry in Two Worlds / by Larry Merchant

Part III. Opera and Theater Contributions of David Amram. From Theater to Opera / by Dean Birkenkamp ; David Amram : A Jewish Life in Music : The Final Ingredient and other Important Compositions / by Jeff Janeczko ; The Essence of David Amram / by Keir Dullea ; Remembering the Premiere of Amram's Opera Twelfth Night / by Christopher Alden and David Alden ; Filming Twelfth Night / by Lawrence Kraman

Part IV. Amram the Jazz Performer and Composer. A Lifetime in Jazz / by Dean Birkenkamp ; David Amram's Early Jazz Years and Collaborations / by Marc Myers ; Amram and Cuba : Varieties of Afro-Cuban and Latin Musics / by Arturo O'Farrill ; Innovations : Jamming with Amram Across the Decades / by Mark Morganelli ; David Amram is a Musical Instrument / by Malachy McCourt ; Now is the Time as Creative Manifestation of Consciousness / by Hugh Ragin ; No More Walls : The Ever-Wider World of David Amram / by David Cole

Part V. The Songs of David Amram. From Orchestral Compositions to Spontaneous Lyrics / by Dean Birkenkamp ; A Composer's Way with Words / by Hassan Melehy ; The Songs of David Amram : Jazz, Classical, Film, and Operatic Compositions / by Gerald Bieritz ; Scat and Make-Up Songs : The Art of One-Time Only Rap Reporting / by David Amram ; Bourbon is Vegetarian / by Kurt Elling and David Amram

Part VI. The Whole Wide World of Amram's Folk Performance. Performing the World's Music / by Dean Birkenkamp ; Performing Folk Music in Many Venues / by John McEuen ; Remembering Odetta : 40 Years of Midnight Adventures, with Kris Kristofferson, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, and Others / by David Amram. Melding Folk and Symphonic : Commissioning This Land / by Nora Guthrie ; The Dean of Hangout-ology at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival / by Deana McCloud ; A Unique Performer in the Folk World / by Barry Ollman ; Musical Adventures with David Amram / by Radoslav Lorkovic ; David Amram Doesn't Play Music / by John Cooper

Part VII. Amram the Author-and His Collaborations with Writers. David Amram's Literary Endeavors / by Dean Birkenkamp ; Langston Hughes, Jack Kerouac, David Amram / by Ronald Martinetti ; Let Us Remember : Review of the Cantata by Langston Hughes and David Amram / by Paul Hertelendy ; Vibrations, Musical Differences, Life with Others / by Charles Lemert ; On Amram's Book Upbeat : Nine Lives of a Musical Cat / by Frank McCourt ; "Life is Even More Fun at 90" Amram and the Kerouac Legacy / by Holly George Warren

Part VIII. Hollywood and Beyond : Amram's Film Scores. From the Village to Hollywood, by Dean Birkenkamp ; Frankenheimer, Sinatra, and the Scoring of The Manchurian Candidate / by Neil Hickey ; The Manchurian Candidate : The Novel, the Film, the Music / by Geoff Wills ; Cinema's Elusive Musical Poet : Scoring Splendor in the Grass / by Steve Vertlieb

Part IX. Amram's Legacy : Mixing Musical Styles and Performance Traditions. Hearing a Singular Note in the Universe / by Dean Birkenkamp ; Amram's Musical Bouillabaisse / by Larry Kirwan ; At Home Around the World / by David Amram ; David Amram and Native American Musical Performance / by Matoaka Little Eagle ; Native Flutes and Friendship / by Louis Mofsie ; Diamonds in the Sidewalk : Kerouac, Amram, and the Bells of Hell / by Robin Hirsch ; The Village and the Man Who Makes It Live On / by Elizabeth Thomson ; An Icon of Inclusion and Pioneer of World Music / by Douglas Brinkley

Part X: Coda. You are Only as Old as You Make Other People Feel ; by David Amram

Appendix. Complete Discography of Compositions and Performances by David Amram.

Amram, David > Criticism and interpretation.

Composers > United States > Biography.

Music > 20th century > History and criticism.

Music > 21st century > History and criticism.

Composition (Music) > Collaboration.

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