Ask Your Mama! Music by Laura Karpman, on a text by Langston Hughes
"Hot jazz, German lieder, cha-cha, and Afro-Cuban drumming come together in this collaboration between four-time Emmy-winning composer Laura Karpman and five-time Grammy-winning soprano Jessye Norman, based on Langston Hughes’s epic poem, Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. A heady mixture of intersecting cultures, Ask Your Mama! brings together the collective memories of America and the hope for its future in a compelling tapestry of orchestral music integrated with technology and sound samples drawn from a dozen traditions."
Go to this site to download/read the Langston Hughes poem and listen to Laura Karpman, the composer, talks about ASK YOUR MAMA.
The ASK YOUR MAMA blog.
Here's info about the show and video on the Carnegie Hall website.
Carnegie Hall
Monday, March 16, 2009 at 8 PM
by Subway:
A, B, C, D, or 1 to Columbus Circle
N, Q, R, or W to 57 St./Seventh Avenue
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