DAVID AMRAM - INSCRIBED SHEET MUSIC SIGNED - HFSID 82807

DAVID AMRAM
Copy of composer David Amram's Sonata for Violin and Piano, signed with "My best to you" on the front cover
Inscribed sheet music signed "For/Martin/Riskin/My best to you/David Amram" on front cover. Pencil notations in top right and bottom left corner of front cover. 28 pages including covers, with separate 12 page score for solo violin, 9x11¾, bound with two staples in cardstock covers. Sheet music for Amram's Sonata for Violin and Piano. Published by Edition Peters. ©1965 by C. F. Peters Corporation.Putting prolific American composer Amram, born in 1930, into a neat little pigeonhole is a difficult, if not impossible, feat. A multi-instrumentalist on the French horn, piano, recorder, flutes, whistles, percussion, Spanish guitar and numerous folkloric instruments, he has successfully traveled between classical, jazz and Latin jazz music, with a little world music thrown in for good measure, and has composed over a hundred pieces for orschestra and chamber and two operas. Amram has collaborated with numerous artists, including Leonard Bernstein, who chose him as the New York Philharmonic's first composer-in-residence in 1966, as well as Dizzy Gillespie, Willie Nelson, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Lionel Tito Puente and numerous actors, directors, writers and playwrights. He also composed and conducted music for over 20 Broadway plays between 1958 and 1995, including Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer and Tony Award- winning J. B. (1958-1959), and for movies and TV shows, including the short Pull My Daisy (1959), narrated by Jack Kerouac, one of Amram's many collaborators; Splendor in the Grass (1961); and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). He's written three books, too, as if that isn't enough. Lightly toned. Covers are lightly creased and have rounded corners. Staples are rusted. Otherwise in fine condition.