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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=129 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <IMG SRC="fc4605e0.jpg" border=0 width="864" height="94" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Red Hot Promotions, a promotions and mar"><I><B><IMG SRC="d15500f0.jpg" border=0 width="80" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></A><A HREF="id2.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About Red Hot"><I><B><IMG SRC="cf3500f0.jpg" border=0 width="80" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></A><A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Red Hot Artists"><I><B><IMG SRC="cf6500f0.jpg" border=0 width="80" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></A><A HREF="id4.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Red Hot Events Calendar"><I><B><IMG SRC="cf7500f0.jpg" border=0 width="80" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></A><A HREF="id5.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Red Hot Services"><I><B><IMG SRC="cf8500f0.jpg" border=0 width="80" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></A><A HREF="id7.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Red Hot Store"><I><B><IMG SRC="cf9500f0.jpg" border=0 width="80" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></A><A HREF="id12.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact Red Hot"><I><B><IMG SRC="cfa500f0.jpg" border=0 width="80" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></A><A HREF="id59.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Red Hot Links"><I><B><IMG SRC="cfb500f0.jpg" border=0 width="80" height="15" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=351 BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <bR> <div> <I> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="502" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 3799 WIDTH="496"><div> <I><B><IMG SRC="9aa032b0.jpg" border=0 width="259" height="43" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></I></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="502" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 2463 WIDTH="496"><div> <B>LAUNCH OF WORLDWIDE TOUR</B></div> <div> <B>ON THE ROAD - THE KEROUAC SCROLLS </B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="6f97e030.jpg" border=0 width="382" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> ORLANDO, Fla. - (January 15, 2003)</div> <div> Award Winning Composer,</div> <div> multi-instrumentalist, author and Kerouac's principal musical collaborator David Amram will perform and host at the opening ceremonies celebrating the public showing of the original scroll manuscript of Jack Kerouac's On the Road at the Orange County Regional History Center on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2004 from 5:30p.m. to 6:30p.m.  Cost is $15 per person and space is limited.</div> <bR> <div> Amram's performance marks the worldwide tour launch of On the Road - The Kerouac Scrolls, Jack Kerouac's breakthrough 1957 novel presented for a limited engagement at the Orange County Regional History Center of Orlando from January 10 through March 21.  The original "On the Road" Scroll recently sold for $2.4 million at Christie's New York auction house.  The Scroll is central to the special exhibit as it documents Kerouac's work in its original form, as well as chronicling his time in Orlando, where he lived when the publication of On the Road in 1957 catapulted him to worldwide fame.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Joined by some of Orlando's finest jazz and classical musicians, Amram will perform some of Kerouac's favorite compositions -- from Bach to Ellington -- as well as Amram's own classical compositions and music he composed to accompany readings from On The Road, which Kerouac and Amram performed together at the first Jazz/Poetry readings held in New York City in 1957.  The program will also include the scat song co-written by Amram and Kerouac with additional lyrics by Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg, for the landmark 1959 Beat Generation documentary film Pull My Daisy, narrated spontaneously by Kerouac, for which Amram wrote the score and in which he also appeared.</div> <bR> <div> Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for the Broadway theater and film including the classic scores for Splendor in The Grass and The Manchurian Candidate, two operas including the groundbreaking Holocaust opera The Final Ingredient and is noted as a pioneer of World Music as well as for his books, Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac and Vibrations: The Adventures and Musical Times of David Amram.</div> <bR> <div> Guest readers of Kerouac's works with music will include John Sampas, Kerouac's brother-in-law, lifelong friend and executor the Kerouac Estate, as well as Orlando's Bob Kealing, author and prize winning TV journalist. Kealing is also a cofounder, with Marty Cummins of the Kerouac Project of Orlando. Through monies raised, aspiring writers are selected to live rent</div> <div> and utility-free in the home of the famous author while they work on their craft.</div> <bR> <div> On The Road - The Kerouac Scrolls documents Kerouac and his friends' struggles to break free from Cold War conformity.  Visitors can examine Kerouac's words on the 50 foot long original scroll and see rare photos from former Life photographer Fred DeWitt.  Many of these photos have never before been available for public viewing.  The images reveal the author at work in his hideaway from fame in Orlando. </div> <bR> <div> For more information call (407) 836-8500</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Courier New" >or visit </FONT><A HREF="www.thehistorycenter.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="www.thehistorycenter.org">www.thehistorycenter.org</A>.</div> <bR> <div> For press interviews with Bob Kealing</div> <div> please write <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF9900" FACE="Courier New" ><A HREF="mailto:tkone@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:tkone@aol.com">tkone@aol.com</A></FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> For press interviews with David Amram, please write <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF9900" FACE="Courier New" ><A HREF="mailto:amramdavid@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:amramdavid@aol.com">amramdavid@aol.com</A></FONT></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Courier New" >or visit</FONT> <A HREF="www.davidamram.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="www.davidamram.com">www.davidamram.com</A> </div> <bR> <div> Shanon Michael Larimer</div> <div> Director of Public Relations and Marketing</div> <div> Orange County Regional History Center</div> <div> 65 East Central Boulevard</div> <div> Orlando, Florida 32801</div> <div> 407.836.8595 Tele</div> <div> 407.836.8374 Fax</div> <bR> <div> <B>JANUARY 15TH PROGRAM FOR HISTORY CENTER</B></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="482" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 17 WIDTH="25"><div> 1.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Opening Remarks from Sara Van Arsdel of History Center</div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 50 WIDTH="25"><div> 2.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="446"><div> Acknowledgment of dignitaries such as</div> <div> Mart Cummins, and major cultural figures from Orlando, the State of Florida, and from SA, Canada and Europe. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 34 WIDTH="25"><div> 3.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="446"><div> Short welcoming of the Scroll to Orlando and the four year tour by James Irsay and/or Chairman Crotty . </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 17 WIDTH="25"><div> 4.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> Sara Van Arsdel introduces David Amram </div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 34 WIDTH="25"><div> 5.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="446"><div> Amram reads "What is Beat?" written by Kerouac which mentions Bach as a major influence in his life.   </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 50 WIDTH="25"><div> 6.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="446"><div> Amram introduces violinist  Lisa Ferrigno, who plays a short movement from Bach's</div> <div> E-Major Partita </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 67 WIDTH="25"><div> 7.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="446"><div> Amram introduces Bob Kealing, who reads three selections from On theRoad, with  Amram accompanying him,  as he did for the first jazz poetry readings with Kerouac in New York City in 1957.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 66 WIDTH="25"><div> 8.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="446"><div> Kerouac's brother-in-law John Sampas  reads a letter from Sebastian Sampas to William Saroyan in the early 40's about a  great </div> <div> young writer named Jack Kerouac.   </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 148 WIDTH="25"><div> 9.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="446"><div> Amram introduces flautist Aaron Goldman, performing "Theme and Variations on Red River Valley" for flute and strings, Amram's one movement composition, performed at the Kennedy Center, when passages from Kerouac's On the Road with orchestral accompaniment were first performed in 1995, celebrating </div> <div> Keroac's trips, with road companion Neal Cassady, through Colorado and Texas, </div> <div> described in On the Road .</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 132 WIDTH="25"><div> 10.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="446"><div> "Pull My Daisy" with lyrics by Kerouac, Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg.  Orlando's top jazz ensemble Surface Tension joins Amram (on piano, French horn, pennywhistles, percussion, singing and scatting) for the </div> <div> original song he co-wrote with Kerouac, Cassady and Ginsberg for the classic spontaneously Kerouac-narrated 1959 documentary film Pull My Daisy. </div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 67 WIDTH="25"><div> 11.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="446"><div> Lisa Ferrigno performs Theme and Variations,  the last movement of Amram's Violin Sonata 1960 (violin & piano) The theme is a short motif Amram composed a year earlier in 1959 for the film Pull My Daisy.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 34 WIDTH="25"><div> 12.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="446"><div> Amram reads two short one page letters from Kerouac to him from Orlando.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 260 WIDTH="25"><div> 13.</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="446"><div> Encore piece with the jazz ensemble of one of Jack's favorite songs, Billy Strayhorn's "Take the A Train," Duke Ellington's theme song about the subway train that Kerouac and all of us took to go to Harlem and Columbia University and back downtown Greenwich Village, which also includes audience participation, scat singing and sends everyone off in a joyous mood. </div> <div> For more information , contact....</div> <bR> <div> Shanon Michael Larimer</div> <div> Director of Public Relations and Marketing</div> <div> Orange County Regional History Center</div> <div> 65 East Central Boulevard</div> <div> Orlando, Florida 32801</div> <div> 407.836.8595 Tele</div> <div> 407.836.8374 Fax</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <div> <IMG SRC="6f97e030.jpg" border=0 width="382" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>AWARD WINNING COMPOSER TO PERFORM AT</B></div> <div> <B>LAUNCH OF WORLDWIDE TOUR:</B></div> <div> <B>ORLANDO, Fla. - (Januaray 15, 2003</B>)</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >Award Winning Composer, multi-instrumentalist, author and Kerouac's principal musical collaborator </FONT><A HREF="id25.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Artists: Amram"><I>David Amram</I></A><I> </I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >will perform and host at the opening ceremonies celebrating the public showing of the original scroll manuscript of Jack  Kerouac's On the Road at the Orange County Regional History Center on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2004 from 5:30p.m. to 6:30p.m. Cost is $15 per person and space is limited.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Amram's performance marks the worldwide tour launch of On the Road - The Kerouac Scrolls, Jack Kerouac's breakthrough 1957 novel presented for a limited engagement at the Orange County Regional History Center of Orlando from January 10 through March 21. The original "On the Road" Scroll recently sold for $2.4 million at Christie's New York auction house. The scroll is central to the special exhibit as it documents Kerouac's work in its original form, as well as chronicling his time in Orlando, where he lived when the publication of On the Road in 1957 catapulted him to worldwide fame.</div> <bR> <div> Joined by some of Orlando's finest jazz and classical musicians,</div> <div> Amram will perform some of Kerouac's favorite compositions -- from Bach to Ellington -- as well as Amram's own classical compositions and music he composed to accompany readings from On The Road, which </div> <div> Kerouac and Amram performed together at the first Jazz/Poetry readings held in New York City in 1957.</div> <div> The program will also include the scat song co-written by Amram and Kerouac with additional lyrics by Neal Cassady and Allen Ginsberg, for the landmark 1959 Beat Generation documentary film Pull My Daisy, narrated spontaneously by Kerouac, for which Amram wrote the score and in which he also appeared.</div> <bR> <div> Amram has composed more than 100 orchestral and chamber music works, written many scores for the Broadway theater and film including the classic scores for Splendor in The Grass and The Manchurian Candidate, two operas including the groundbreaking Holocaust opera The Final Ingredient and is noted as a pioneer of World Music as well as for his books, <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF9900" FACE="Arial" ><B>Offbeat: Collaborating with Kerouac and Vibrations: The Adventures and Musical Times of David Amram.</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Guest readers of Kerouac's works</B></I><I><B> </B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" >with music will include John Sampas, Kerouac's brother-in-law, lifelong friend and executor the Kerouac Estate, as well as Orlando's Bob Kealing, author and prize winning TV journalist.  Kealing is also a cofounder, with Marty Cummins of the Kerouac Project of Orlando. Through monies raised, aspiring writers are selected to live rent and utility-free in the home of the famous author while they work on their craft.</FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>On The Road - The Kerouac Scrolls</B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF0000" FACE="Arial" > documents Kerouac and his friends' struggles to break free from Cold War conformity. Visitors can examine Kerouac's words on the 50 foot long original scroll and see rare photos from former Life photographer Fred DeWitt. Many of these photos have never before been available for public viewing. The images reveal the author at work in his hideaway from fame in Orlando. </FONT></div> <bR> <div> For more information call (407) 836-8500 or visit www.thehistorycenter.org.</div> <bR> <div> Shanon Michael Larimer</div> <div> Director of Public Relations and Marketing</div> <div> Orange County Regional History Center</div> <div> 65 East Central Boulevard</div> <div> Orlando, Florida 32801</div> <bR> <div> Tel: 407.836.8595</div> <bR> <div> Fax: 407.836.8374</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Copyright 2008 Red Hot Promotions,  All Rights Reserved</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >Tel: 415-595-1238 </FONT> <FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" >P.O.1817   Sausalito, CA 94965   </FONT> <A HREF="mailto:redhotpr@aol.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:redhotpr@aol.com">RedHotPR@aol.com</A></div> <div> Web design by:</div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.blossom-graphics.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.blossom-graphics.com"><IMG SRC="1518963c0.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A></div> <bR> <bR> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></I></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>