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Aug 27, 2009 · The festival’s roaring rhythms and racial tensions made their way to the page, as Hughes penned what would be his longest poem, “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.”
Mar 16, 2009 · Langston Hughes' epic poem Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz gets a multimedia makeover at Carnegie Hall, complete with opera's Jessye Norman, a full symphony orchestra and the hip-hop group The...
Mar 12, 2009 · Corbis. “The words need to float above the orchestra,” composer Laura Karpman instructs world-renown soprano Jessye Norman who is singing passages of Langston Hughes’ most ambitious though nearly...
ASK YOUR MAMA -- Composer Laura Karpman, Soprano Jessye Norman, Director Annie Dorsen, Conductor George Manahan, Poet Langston Hughes, THE ROOTS, Mezzo-Sopra...
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Mar 16, 2009 · The premiere performance of Ask Your Mama!, at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, was directed by Annie Dorsen and conducted by George Manahan and featured Jessye Norman, hip-hop band The Roots, mezzo-soprano Tracie Luck, jazz singer de’Adre Aziza, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s.
Mar 17, 2009 · In “Ask Your Mama!,” a new setting presented to a capacity audience at Carnegie Hall on Monday night as part of the soprano Jessye Norman’s Honor! series, Laura Karpman, the composer, took...
Summary: Epic poetry set to powerful music, brought to life by a cast of legendary performers: ASK YOUR MAMA is an original musical setting by four-time Emmy Award-winning composer Laura Karpman of the 1961 masterpiece by Langston Hughes, delivered with majesty and magnetism by sopranos Janai Brugger and Angela Brown, hip-hop innovators The ...
