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Sf Ballet Orchestra / Manahan- Ask Your Mama (Poetry By Langston Hughes) (CD)

SKU: 822252234626
¥206.00
the album cover for Sf Ballet Orchestra / Manahan - Ask Your Mama (Poetry By Langston Hughes)
the album cover for Sf Ballet Orchestra / Manahan - Ask Your Mama (Poetry By Langston Hughes)

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 Emmyr-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 Roots and Medusa, jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon and others, conducted by Grammyr nominee George Manahan. Ask Your Mama premiered to a sold-out Carnegie Hall in 2009. It has since played from Harlem's Apollo Theater to the Hollywood Bowl, and has reached millions more through media coverage by NPR, PBS, NBC TV, The New Yorker, and the Huffington Post.

Tracklist:

  1. Ask Your Mama: I. Dedication
  2. Ask Your Mama: II. Cultural Exchange
  3. Ask Your Mama: III. Ride, Red, Ride
  4. Ask Your Mama: IV. Shades Of Pigmeat
  5. Ask Your Mama: V. Ode To Dinah
  6. Ask Your Mama: VI. Blues In Stereo
  7. Ask Your Mama: VII. Horn Of Plenty
  8. Ask Your Mama: VIII. Gospel Cha-Cha
  9. Ask Your Mama: I. Is It True?
  10. Ask Your Mama: II. Ask Your Mama
  11. Ask Your Mama: III. Bird In Orbit
  12. Ask Your Mama: IV. Jazztet Muted - Show Fare, Please
Format: New CD/Classical

Sf Ballet Orchestra / Manahan- Ask Your Mama (Poetry By Langston Hughes) (CD)

SKU: 822252234626
¥206.00

Release Date: 07.10.2015

 
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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 Emmyr-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 Roots and Medusa, jazz vocalist Nnenna Freelon and others, conducted by Grammyr nominee George Manahan. Ask Your Mama premiered to a sold-out Carnegie Hall in 2009. It has since played from Harlem's Apollo Theater to the Hollywood Bowl, and has reached millions more through media coverage by NPR, PBS, NBC TV, The New Yorker, and the Huffington Post.

Tracklist:

  1. Ask Your Mama: I. Dedication
  2. Ask Your Mama: II. Cultural Exchange
  3. Ask Your Mama: III. Ride, Red, Ride
  4. Ask Your Mama: IV. Shades Of Pigmeat
  5. Ask Your Mama: V. Ode To Dinah
  6. Ask Your Mama: VI. Blues In Stereo
  7. Ask Your Mama: VII. Horn Of Plenty
  8. Ask Your Mama: VIII. Gospel Cha-Cha
  9. Ask Your Mama: I. Is It True?
  10. Ask Your Mama: II. Ask Your Mama
  11. Ask Your Mama: III. Bird In Orbit
  12. Ask Your Mama: IV. Jazztet Muted - Show Fare, Please