Jason Tramm, Director of Music Ministries for the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association. 2014. By Paul Goldfinger . Blogfinger.net.
Being a conductor, Maestro Tramm often has his back to the audience so here he is in a rare frontal view. This image was obtained at the September 1, 2014 annual Camp Meeting Association Labor Day public summary* of the season’s successes.
Jason Tramm is a young man who is considered a rising star in the music world. In Ocean Grove he manages an ambitious program of choral, orchestral and oratorial works. He believes that adding music to inspirational words creates a powerful combination, so he plans even more great choral works in the Great Auditorium next season.
But Maestro Tramm, like all great musicians, appreciates music that crosses over the genre divides.
To hear Itzhak Perlman play klezmer or Dick Hyman crossing over from classical to jazz, or, as in this case, the great late operatic soprano Eileen Farrell performing pop music shows how that works.
And so it is with Jason Tramm who brings us all sorts of music in the Grove. Hopefully he will be able to cross those divides regularly in the Great Auditorium so that a variety of audiences can enjoy his versatility.
EILEEN FARRELL: What music can we post to go with Jason’s photo? Putting up an opera aria is too easy.
Here is Eileen Farrell with “The More I See You” by Harry Warren and Mack Gordon.
* 2022: Note that the CMA did not have their public meeting this past Labor Day. We can speculate on that change, but not now.
And we noted above that Jason Tramm is a strong believer in enhancing words with music. We feel the same way on Blogfinger, so most of our posts are coupled with music, just as music always enhances movies.
In our case, the pairing of music with still photography, poetry and even opinion pieces is still an original idea of ours, and we will continue.
At one point in Blogfinger history, one of our editors complained that we were posting too much music, but I believe that music is something that we humans naturally appreciate, somewhere in our brains, so we will keep it up, and many of you have told us that you love the music.
Editor: Paul Goldfinger, MD.