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31-651: The Greenwich Village Orchestra (GVO) has a roster of nearly 60 musicians. The GVO is governed by a board of directors and is run by an all-volunteer staff. The Greenwich Village Orchestra (GVO) was founded in 1986 by Robert Grehan and a group of musicians from the New York Metropolitan area. Its membership is very diverse with members hailing from all walks of life, geographic locations and cultural backgrounds. The Orchestra has had three music directors; Robert Grehan (1986–1995), Scott Jackson Wiley (1997–2001) Barbara Yahr (2002-present). The GVO has also enjoyed

62-547: A private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio . It was founded in 1865 and is the second oldest conservatory and oldest continually operating conservatory in the United States. It is one of the few American conservatories to be completely attached to a liberal arts college, allowing students the opportunity to pursue degrees in both music and a traditional liberal arts subject via a five-year double-degree program. Like

93-544: A 15-piece orchestra for Betty Carter 's 1982 album Whatever Happened to Love? . Amram is a strong advocate for music education. For over a quarter-century he served as music director for youth and family concert programs for the Brooklyn Philharmonic. Amram has said: "It is tremendously important for professional people to work with the young. That is the way a true music culture is created—not through merchandising, but through love." In 1959, Amram wrote

124-860: A decade later), Adele Anthony (violin), Edward Arron (cello), Harvey DeSouza (violin), Nancy Goeres (bassoon), Indira Koch (violin), Clancy Newman (cello), Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt (cello), and Carol Yahr (soprano). Equally notable are the many talented musicians of the GVO that who have been showcased as soloists over the years, such as: Gene Citronbaum (former Principal Trumpet), Gary Dranch (Principal Clarinet), Simon Dratfield (Principal Flute), Gerard Gordon (Marimba and Principal Timpani), Ricardo Cox (former Principal Trumpet), Amy Mendillo (former Principal Oboe), Dan Purgason (English Horn), Warren Wernick (Principal Trumpet), Daryl Nuccio (Principal Cello), Midhat Serbagi (former Principal Viola), and Robin Zeh (former Concertmaster). As

155-505: A family concert each season with the special focus on inspiring, educating and entertaining young audiences. In 2004, through a partnership with Play it by Ear Productions, the GVO reached out to even more school children. The GVO has also instituted an annual Young Artists' Competition and have invited their winners to perform with them for the past few seasons. They have performed summer concerts in Gramercy Park in collaboration with

186-743: A new home for the Jazz Studies, Music History, and Music Theory departments. Kohl is connected to Robertson by a third-floor enclosed bridge, which also contains the Sky Bar, named for the iconic Cleveland jazz club that closed in 1954. The Robertson Building houses around 150 practice rooms, most with windows. In addition, the Otto B. Schoepfle Vocal Arts Center, Career Resource Center, Kulas Organ Center, reed-making rooms, computer labs, faculty studios, and staff offices are located here. Oberlin has been an all-Steinway school since 1877, and contains one of

217-885: A number of Shakespeare in the Park presentations. In 1961, he served as guest composer-in-residence for the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. In 1957, Amram, along with Jack Kerouac and poets Howard Hart and Philip Lamantia , staged one of the first poetry readings with jazz at the Brata Art Gallery on East 10th Street , in New York. In 1966 Leonard Bernstein chose Amram as the New York Philharmonic 's first composer-in-residence. He has performed as conductor and/or soloist with

248-567: A number of Amram's international musical tours, including visits to Brazil (1969); Kenya (1975); Cuba (1977); and the Middle East (1978). Amram's orchestral works include Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woody Guthrie , (commissioned by the Woody Guthrie Foundation and premiered in 2007) and Three Songs: A Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (written for and premiered by pianist Jon Nakamatsu in 2009). He conducted

279-485: A volunteer community orchestra they put special value in reaching out to their community, audience and neighborhood. In 2005, they performed their first benefit concert for the Performing Arts House at Washington Irving High School, their main venue. This collaboration included active participation from the school's teachers, choral students, dance students and jazz band. For many years they have performed

310-583: A wide range of folk, pop, and country figures, such as Bob Dylan , the Roche sisters , Pete Seeger , Odetta , Willie Nelson , Oscar Brand , Judy Collins , Peter Yarrow , Tom Paxton , Phil Ochs , Josh White , Patti Smith , Arlo Guthrie , and others. In 1956, producer Joseph Papp hired Amram to compose scores for the New York Shakespeare Festival . Over the years, Amram composed scores for 25 of Papp's productions, including

341-660: Is an American composer , arranger , and conductor of orchestral, chamber, and choral works, many with jazz flavorings. He plays piano, French horn, Spanish guitar, and pennywhistle , and sings. Amram was born in Philadelphia , the son of legal scholar Philip Werner Amram . He studied at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in 1948–1949, and earned a bachelor's degree in European history from George Washington University in 1952. In 1955 he enrolled at

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372-572: The Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra , Toronto Symphony Orchestra , Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra , Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra , Montreal Symphony Orchestra , Grant Park Symphony Orchestra , and for the National Jewish Arts Festival. He has conducted at New York's Carnegie Hall and at Avery Fisher Hall , among other prestigious venues. The United States Information Agency sponsored

403-655: The Manhattan School of Music , where he studied under Dimitri Mitropoulos , Vittorio Giannini , and Gunther Schuller . Under Schuller he studied French horn. As a sideman or leader, Amram has worked with Aaron Copland , Thelonious Monk , Dizzy Gillespie , Charles Mingus , Jack Kerouac , Sonny Rollins , Lionel Hampton , Stan Getz , George Barrow , Jerry Dodgion , Paquito D'Rivera , Pepper Adams , Arturo Sandoval , Oscar Pettiford , Allen Ginsberg , Mary Lou Williams , Kenny Dorham , Ray Barretto , Wynton Marsalis , and others. He has also worked with

434-509: The "dean of African-American composers." These efforts have helped Oberlin remain committed to its values of freedom, social justice, and service. It is also the oldest continuously operating coeducational conservatory, since its incorporation with Oberlin College, the first coeducational college . The college and conservatory were listed as a National Historic Landmark on December 21, 1965, for its significance in social progress. Due to

465-586: The 1990 premiere of Bruce Wolosoff 's When Fire Flows like Water . In 2005 the GVO was a commission partner with orchestras in all 50 states and performed the New York City premiere of Joan Tower 's Made in America. Other musical highlights include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony (performed in 1992 with the Stonewall Chorale and in 2003 with the chorus Seraphim), and Handel's Messiah. In 2005,

496-530: The 2009 National Medal of Arts , the highest award given by the United States government to artists and arts patrons in recognition of the wealth and depth of their creative expressions. The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is the only professional music school to be so honored by President Barack Obama. Due to the conservatory's affiliation with Oberlin College, students may either enter the conservatory only or Oberlin's five year Double-Degree program, in which

527-515: The Conservatory of Music pursue a degree in each division in the double-degree program. These programs are organized into four departments: The Oberlin Jazz Ensemble, composed of jazz as well as classical performance majors, is a component in a four-year curriculum in jazz studies, leading to a bachelor of music degree with a concentration in performance, composition, or both. Wendell Logan , Professor of African-American Music and Chair of

558-860: The Gramercy Park Block Association, and in the Summer of 2000 they performed in the Austin J. Tobin Plaza at the World Trade Center . They also perform every Summer in Union Square Park , at their outdoor concert series sponsored by the Union Square Partnership, bringing symphonic classical music to a greater audience. David Amram David Werner Amram III (born November 17, 1930)

589-529: The Orchestra performed Copland's Lincoln Portrait, narrated by former Senator Bob Kerrey . The Orchestra pas performed more than 120 concerts over the last 20 years. The GVO has featured many world acclaimed soloists, including: Stanley Drucker (clarinet), Kenneth Gordon (violin), Robert Langevin (flute), Philip Myers (horn), Sheryl Staples (violin), Colin Jacobsen (violin, first at the age of 12 and then

620-479: The administration claimed that "Oberlin is peculiar in that which is good," notable as the first college and first conservatory in the United States to regularly admit African-American students. Oberlin College's role as an educator of African-American students prior to the Civil War and thereafter is historically significant. Notable is the graduation of William Grant Still , a student who widely became regarded as

651-408: The conservatory's affiliation with Elisha Gray , inventor of the electromechanical oscillator , and Thaddeus Cahill , inventor of the telharmonium , Oberlin Conservatory plays a role in the origins of electronic music . The TIMARA (Technology In Music And Related Arts) program was the world's first conservatory program in this field, established in 1967. Oberlin Conservatory was the recipient of

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682-476: The largest collections of Steinway & Sons pianos, in the world, consisting over 240 pianos. Oberlin Conservatory offers private study in 31 applied areas and undergraduate majors, including a double major in piano performance and vocal accompanying. It offers the Bachelor of Music, Master of Music, a performance diploma, and an artist diploma. Students accepted to both the College of Arts and Sciences and

713-433: The musical insights brought by several guest conductors including David Amram , Michael Gilbert, Alejandro Guzman, David Leibowitz, Mark Mandorano, Gregory Ortega, Ki-Sun Sung, Peter Szep, and Sybille Werner. The GVO has performed a wide repertoire ranging from Bach to Beethoven to Bruckner and beyond. Over its history, the orchestra has commissioned new music, provided composer contests, and performed world premieres such as

744-464: The pennywhistle as a jazz instrument when I played with him in Havana in 1977." In his 1968 book Vibrations , he describes making an omelette for Charlie Parker with "fried onions, marmalade, maple syrup, bacon, tomatoes, covered with hot mayonnaise with some garlic fried in it and a little cheese sauce", saying they "wolfed down portions of it" with borscht and orange soda. Amram is mentioned in

775-415: The popular children's song "Peanut Butter Sandwich" by Raffi , in the line "one for me and one for David Amram", a fact which Amram said "impressed" his children; Raffi later admitted that he had mentioned Amram because he "couldn't think of anything [else] to rhyme with 'jam'." Oberlin Conservatory of Music The Oberlin Conservatory of Music is a private music conservatory of Oberlin College ,

806-566: The rest of Oberlin College, the student body of the conservatory is almost exclusively undergraduate. The Oberlin Collegiate Institute was built on 500 acres (2.0 km ) of land, founded in 1833 and became Oberlin College in 1850. In 1867, two years after the Oberlin Conservatory's founding in 1865, the previously separate Oberlin Conservatory became incorporated with the college on a similar grant. In tandem,

837-479: The score for Frankenheimer's 1964 film Seven Days in May , but it was rejected and replaced with a score by Jerry Goldsmith .) Amram composed the score for the 2001 documentary Boys of Winter , about the lives of 1940s–50s Brooklyn Dodgers baseball stars Pee Wee Reese and Carl Erskine . The feature was awarded the "Best Documentary Film" honor at that year's New York Independent Film Festival. In 2013, he wrote

868-659: The score for and appeared in the Robert Frank / Alfred Leslie short film Pull My Daisy , which featured Jack Kerouac , Allen Ginsberg , Peter Orlovsky and Gregory Corso . He composed scores for the Elia Kazan films Splendor in the Grass (1961) and The Arrangement (1969), and for the John Frankenheimer films The Young Savages (1961) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). (He composed

899-657: The score for the Michael Patrick Kelly comedy-drama Isn't It Delicious , which starred Kathleen Chalfant and Keir Dullea . In a 2007 interview, he observed: "The pennywhistle is a versatile instrument. Just as a violin can be used for either classical or bluegrass, the pennywhistle can be used different ways. Audiences in Kenya enjoyed it when I went there for the World Council of Churches and played African music in 1976. Dizzy Gillespie dug how I used

930-687: The south side of Tappan Square. The original structure of three big white buildings was designed by the Japanese-American architect Minoru Yamasaki in 1963, which closely resembles Yamasaki's later design of the World Trade Center in New York City . A vertical expansion was completed in 2010, improving the buildings acoustics and creating a double height recital room. In 2010, The Bertram and Judith Kohl Building, designed by architectural firm DLR Group , opened to provide

961-532: The student will complete both a Bachelor of Music degree as well as a Bachelor of Arts . Admission is based primarily on an extremely competitive audition; over 1,400 musicians from around the world apply for a freshman class of around 120. The conservatory was previously housed in Warner Hall, a large stone building where the King Building now stands. It now occupies four interconnected buildings on

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