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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 ...
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...
Mar 16, 2009 · Karpman originally wrote the music for a project for CBS that was tabled in the early 2000s. She kept it for later use and found that the text of Langston Hughes’s longest poetic work, a cycle titled Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz (1961), would be a good fit.
Karpman's Grammy-winning Ask Your Mama [8] premiered at Carnegie Hall on March 16, 2009, with performances by Jessye Norman, Cassandra Wilson, The Roots, and the Orchestra of St. Luke's conducted by George Manahan.
Mar 5, 2009 · Ask Your Mama! will premiere at Carnegie Hall on March 16 as part of the Honor! Festival, a celebration of the African American cultural legacy curated by Jessye Norman. We saw the trailer and heard some rumors about a tone row, and just had to ask the work’s composer, Laura Karpman, a few questions.
