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Glos Center
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio 45056
(513) 529-7592
(513) 529-1950 fax
newsinfo@muohio.edu
News Release
"The Langston Hughes Project presents "Ask Your Mama," a multimedia concert02/10/2012 |
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"Ask Your Mama" 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. It is a twelve-part epic poem which Hughes scored with musical cues drawn from blues and Dixieland, gospel songs, boogie woogie, bebop and progressive jazz, Latin "cha cha" and Afro-Cuban mambo music, German lieder, Jewish liturgy, West Indian calypso, and African drumming — a creative masterwork left unperformed at his death. The Ron McCurdy Quartet will perform with video images of the Harlem Renaissance by African American artists and photographers including Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks and Romare Bearden. McCurdy is professor of music at the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California. Previously he served as director of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz at USC. He has served as professor of music and chair of the Afro-African American studies department and served as director of jazz studies at the University of Minnesota. He is a consultant to the Grammy Foundation educational programs and serves as director of the National Grammy Vocal Jazz Ensemble and Combo. The concert is free but tickets are required. Free tickets are available at the office of diversity affairs, 336 Shriver Center, 529-6504 or contact Janine Todd at toddjc@muohio.edu. The concert is sponsored by the office of diversity affairs and the Miami University Art Museum. |
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