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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...
May 4, 2020 · Ask your mama : 12 moods for jazz. Cultural exchange -- Ride, Red, ride -- Shades of pigmeat -- Ode to Dinah -- Blues in stereo -- Horn of plenty -- Gospel cha-cha -- Is it true? -- Ask your mama -- Bird in orbit -- Jazztet muted -- Show fare, please -- Liner notes.
Jul 29, 2015 · From Africa to the Americas, the south to the north, cities to suburbs, opera to jazz, gospel to be-bop, and "shadows to fire"—discover Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz, Hughes’ response to the riots at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival.
Though Ask Your Mama represents the high point of Hughes's experiments with musical forms in poetry, these devel opments can be seen as a driving force behind his entire career.
ASK YOUR MAMA is Emmy Award-winning Composer Laura Karpman's multimedia setting of Langston Hughes' epic 1961 poem. SUBSCRIBE to our channel! ASK YOUR MAMA: Shades of Pigmeat Playlist. Play...
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.
Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz. Langston Hughes. 3.95. 41 ratings10 reviews. Poem about the struggle for freedom in the early ’60s. Genres PoetryFiction. 92 pages, Paperback. First published July 17, 1961. Book details & editions. About the author. Langston Hughes. 555 books1,992 followers. Follow.
