Karpman: “Ask Your Mama” & the Langston Hughes Connection

 

“Ask Your Mama,” Laura Karpman’s multimedia theater piece, returns to New York City on March 23rd at the historic Apollo Theater, in a co-production with Manhattan School of Music.

Read The Huffington Post’s feature of Karpman’s own words about famed Harlem Renaissance-writer Langston Hughes (whose texts inspired the work), working with collaborator Jessye Norman, and bringing Hughes’ epic poetry to life through music.

Read the composer’s reflections here.