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Langston Hughes’ Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz

Name: Langston Hughes’ Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz
Start: 2022-02-27T19:00:00
Location: Irvine Barclay Theatre

Pacific Symphony

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The Langston Hughes Project is a multimedia concert performance of Langston Hughes’ kaleidoscopic jazz poem suite titled, Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz. This is Hughes’ homage in verse and music to the struggle for artistic and social freedom at home and abroad at the beginning of the 1960s. Ask Your Mama is a twelve-part epic poem which Hughes scored with musical cues drawn from blues and Dixieland, gospel songs, boogie woogie, bebop, pro...

Participants

Terrence A. Carson

Narrator

Ron McCurdy Quartet

Ensemble

Pacific Symphony

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1 dates (27 Feb - 27 Feb)

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