Word: amram
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). "The World of David Amram" looks into the panoramic (jazz to cantatas) musical talents of the 38-year-old composer. His Three Songs for America, written in memory of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, will be premiered on the program...
Sunday, March 30 DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-2 p.m.). "The Final Ingredient," an opera by David Amram (libretto by Arnold Weinstein) celebrates a Passover Seder in a Nazi concentration camp. Repeat...
There must be 500 miniskirts swirling around when this longhair composer David Amram sits in with the band to blow I'm Coming, Virginia on the French horn. And there's Allen Ginsberg gassing pretty good with Arthur Miller at a table in the corner, and Norman Mailer won't shut up about his friend Jose Torres, the light-heavyweight fighter who keeps losing. Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wants to shut up about Viet Nam but they bug him with it. And there's Charles Addams and David Merrick and maybe a thousand other names all jammed...
...wife lives without joy, blessing and good," says the Talmud. Amram Blau might also add: "But be careful of the wife you pick." A 65-year-old widowed Reb, or teacher, and 50 times a grandfather, Blau has been forced to surrender leadership of Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox sect known as the Neturei Karta (Guardians of the City) for the scandal and sin of marrying shy, devout Ruth Ben-David, 45, who is not only a divorced woman but a convert from Catholicism as well...
...while other elders of the sect are squabbling to see who will replace the lost leader, a loyal handful of Blau's followers pray silently for his return. "In the Talmud," says one, "it is written that a city can breathe only through its righteous man. Now that Amram has left Jerusalem, I cannot sleep at night, for the city is no longer safe...