DAVID AMRAM in person

Screening of Splendor in the Grass
followed by Q&A

November 3, 2008, 6:30 pm

Film Row Cinema
1104 South Wabash, 8th floor

Columbia College Chicago’s Film & Video Department, in collaboration with the Chicago Humanities Festival, presents David Amram*, the accomplished American composer, conductor, musician and writer. Following the film screening David Amram will discuss his career and the impact of the Beats on film culture.

Early in his career, David Amram and his Beat counterparts developed musical ideas and schemes that were embodied in jazz poetry readings and his score for the 1959 documentary Pull My Daisy**, narrated by Jack Kerouac. Amram’s musical career flourished, eventually including the scores for Elia Kazan’s Oscar-winning Splendor in the Grass and John Frankenheimer’s The Manchurian Candidate.

Please note: This is not a ticketed event.  Seating is limited, so we strongly recommend that you arrive early.

*David Amram will give a special jazz performance on November 2nd as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival.  For more details, visit here.

**Pull My Daisy, will be screened and discussed on Thursday, October 9th, as a kick-off to the Beat Symposium.  For more details, visit here.

In this 1959 photograph taken in New York City, composer/musician David Amram (top right) is seen with some of the artists, poets and writers who would become the leaders of "The Beat Generation."  They include (clockwise from Amram): poet Allen Ginsburg, writer Gregory Corso (back to camera), artist Larry Rivers and author Jack Kerouac.
Photo: John Cohen