CARNEGIE HALL PRESENTS
Ask Your Mama!

Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Monday, March 16th, 2009 at 8:00 PM

Jessye Norman, Soprano
Cassandra Wilson, Jazz Vocalist
The Roots
Orchestra of St. Luke's
George Manahan, Conductor
Annie Dorsen, Director
Rico Gatson, Artist

LAURA KARPMAN Ask Your Mama! (World Premiere)

Ask Your Mama!, a collaboration between four-time Emmy Award–winning composer Laura Karpman and five-time Grammy winner Jessye Norman, is a multimedia presentation on a text by Langston Hughes, Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.

Major funding for Honor! A Celebration of the African American Cultural Legacy has been provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Alice Tully Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation's New York City Cultural Innovation Fund, and the A. L. and Jennie L. Luria Foundation.

The opening performance of Honor! is sponsored by Bank of America.