Calendar of Events
2012
Oxford Events
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Hall Auditorium
The Langston Hughes Project
The Langston Hughes Project:
"Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz"
by Ronald McCurdy
The Langston Hughes Project is a multimedia concert performance of Langston Hughes's kaleidoscopic jazz poem suite.
"Ask Your Mama" is Hughes's 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.
Ronald McCurdy is professor of music at the Thornton School of Music, University of Southern California.
Prior to his appointment at USC 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.
McCurdy is in demand as a guest clinician, soloist, speaker, director of honor Jazz Ensembles and Choirs throughout the United States and Canada.
He is a consultant to the Grammy Foundation educational programs including serving as director of the National Grammy Vocal Jazz Ensemble and Combo.
For more information:
http://www.ronmccurdy.com/about_hudges_project.htm
Date/Time: |
Friday, February 17, 2012 at 7:00 PM |
Admission: |
Public; Free Free, but tickets are required. Tickets will be available ONLY at the Office of Diversity Affairs, 529-6504, or toddjc@muohio.edu |
Location: |
Hall Auditorium [map], Oxford Campus [map] - Directions |
Presented By: |
Black History Celebration Committee |
Sponsors: |
The Office of Diversity Affairs and the Miami University Art Museum |
Contact: |
Janine Todd, toddjc@muohio.edu or 529-6504 |
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