Amram: Three Lost Loves

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THREE LOST LOVES is based on stories which took place in the novels of three authors: Willa Cather, Zora Neale Hurston and Jack Kerouac. The work was commissioned by the founders of the AMRAM ENSEMBLE violin virtuoso Elmira Darvarova and master classical saxophonist Ken Radnofsky and premiered October 3, 2016 at the Center for Arts and Media (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany. Darvarova and Radnofsky were joined in the USA by the third member of the Ensemble, the brilliant young pianist and composer Thomas Weaver. I want to thank Elmira Darvarova and Ken Radnofsky for making it possible for me to write this piece for them, and to thank Dr. Audrey Sprenger for helping me to find two of the three stories for this piece by suggesting the stories by Willa Cather and Zora Neale Hurston.