Join a generation in celebrating the opening of On the Road at the IMA with a concert from David Amram. In 1957's New York, writer Jack Kerouac and musician/composer David Amram helped usher in the Beat Generation with jazz/poetry readings in Greenwich Village. The two collaborated for the rest of Kerouac’s life. Amram comes to "Naptown" to play songs in Kerouac’s honor. Catch the sounds of Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington, the Amram-composed score to the film Pull My Daisy, and other selections influenced by Kerouac’s diverse cultural taste. Amram is a composer and conductor who has collaborated with Leonard Bernstein, Dizzy Gillespie, Hunter S. Thompson, Willie Nelson and many more. He is also the author of the memoir Offbeat: Collaborating With Kerouac (2002). Local musicians jam with Amram for this musical tribute to Kerouac’s spirit!

Learn more about the exhibition On the Road Again with Jack Kerouac and Robert Frank. ( http://www.imamuseum.org/calendar/calendar/ontheroadagain )

On the Road Again with Jack Kerouac and Robert FrankJune 26-September 21, 2008
Schaefer and Gray Gallery

Attend the exhibition Opening Concert with David Amram!

The IMA will reunite two of the iconic members of the American anti-establishment "Beat Generation" of the 1950s, novelist Jack Kerouac and photographer Robert Frank. The centerpiece of the exhibition is the 120-foot-long original typescript for Kerouac’s 1957 cross-country odyssey, On the Road, owned by Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. The manuscript, 84 feet of which will be on display, will be accompanied by 83 photographs taken by Robert Frank during his own two-year cross-country pilgrimage and published first in Europe in 1958 as Les Americains. The IMA will borrow the almost singular complete set of Frank’s photographs owned by the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts.June 26-September 21, 2008
Schaefer and Gray Gallery