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ASK YOUR MAMA:
TWELVE MOODS FOR JAZZ
Featuring the Ron McCurdy Quartet
THE
LANGSTON HUGHES
PROJECT
Creator and Performer: Dr. Ron McCurdy
Saturday, February 17, 2018, 7:30pm
Jamaica Performing Arts Center
153-10 Jamaica Avenue, Jamaica, NY
Admission: $20/General Admission;
$15/Seniors; $10/Children
performance of Langston Hughes’s kaleidoscopic jazz poem
suite, Ask Your Mama – Hughes’s homage in verse and music
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
Afro-Cuban mambo music, German lieder, Jewish liturgy,
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
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