With internationally acclaimed guest artists composer David Amram and flutist Fenwick Smith in Amram's new concerto "Giants of the Night" - a tribute to Jack Kerouac, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.

Infused with the energy of the Beats, NEO also performs Amram's "Classical Jack" with excerpts from On the Road and "En Memoria de Chano Pozo" with David Amram & Trio as soloists.

Guest Artist Bios

• David Amram, Kerouac's principal musical collaborator, has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for Broadway theater and film including Splendor in The Grass and The Manchurian Candidate, two operas including the ABC Television Event The Final Ingredient, and the score for the landmark 1959 Beat Generation documentary film with Jack Kerouac, Pull My Daisy. He has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein (who chose him as The New York Philharmonic's first composer-in-residence in 1966), Langston Hughes, Dizzy Gillespie, Dustin Hoffman, Willie Nelson, Thelonious Monk,  Elia Kazan, Arthur Miller, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, Tito Puente and flutist James Galway.
  
  David Amram is one of the most acclaimed composers of his generation, listed by BMI as one of the Twenty
  Most Performed Composers of Concert Music in the United States.  For four decades, Amram has brought his contagious enthusiasm, as music director, to young people's, family, and summer concert programs for organizations including the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Montreal Symphony, Toronto Symphony, and Chicago Symphony.  As conductor, narrator, and soloist on instruments from all over the world, he combines jazz, Latin American, Middle Eastern, Native American, and folk musics of the world, in conjunction with the European classics.  He is the recipient of four honorary doctorates for his contribution to American music.  He appears as guest conductor and soloist with major orchestras around the world, as well as touring internationally with his quartet, while continuing to produce a remarkable output of new compositions.
• Fenwick Smith, second flutist of the BSO from 1978 to 2006 is a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society since 1984.  He has also performed on baroque flute with Boston’s leading early music ensembles, and was for 13 years a member of the contemporary music ensemble Boston Musica Viva. After 30 seasons, his annual Jordan Hall recitals are a prominent feature of Boston’s concert calendar. As a concerto soloist Smith has introduced to Boston audiences Lukas Foss’s Renaissance Concerto and the flute concertos of John Harbison and Christopher Rouse. His discography includes premiere recordings of works by Copland, Foote, Gaubert, Ginastera, Koechlin, Dahl, Schulhoff, Schoenberg, Harbison, Cage, Pinkham, Rorem, and Reinecke.