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CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage 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.
Jessye Norman, Soprano
LAURA KARPMAN Ask Your Mama! (World Premiere, commissioned by Carnegie Hall)
The Ask Your Mama! concert presentation is made possible, in part, by generous gifts from Frederick I. Iseman and Henry T. Segerstrom.
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