UNCW Presents "Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz", with the Langston Hughes Project
3/21/2007 11:49:33 AM
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The University of North Carolina Wilmington presents "Ask Your Mama: Twelve Moods for Jazz," a multi-media concert based on a poetic masterwork by poet/playwright Langston Hughes, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, March 27, in the Recital Hall of the Cultural Arts Building.
The Langston Hughes Project will perform Hughes' insightful, wise, poignant, funny and soulful poem accompanied by a live jazz quartet and video images of the Harlem Renaissance by African American artists and photographers including Jacob Lawrence, Gordon Parks and Romare Bearden. Langston Hughes Project music director Ron McCurdy is chair of Jazz Studies and a professor of music in the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.
The performance is free and open to the public but tickets are required. Tickets are available in advance at the Kenan Auditorium Box Office from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, or by phone at 910.962.3500.
The Langston Hughes project is presented by the UNC Wilmington Office of Campus Diversity, the Upperman African American Cultural Center, the Department of Music and the Office of Cultural Arts.
Media contacts:
Deborah Brunson, director of the Upperman African American Cultural Center, at 910.962.3864 or brunsond@uncw.edu
Dana Fischetti, manager of news and media services, 910.962.7259 or fischettid@uncw.edu
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