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Oscar nominee, six-time Grammy-winner and 2018 USA Fellow trumpeter/composer Terence Blanchard has been a consistent artistic force for making powerful musical statements concerning painful American tragedies – past and present. From his expansive work composing the scores for Spike Lee films ranging from the documentary When the Levees Broke ...
Sep 27, 2021 · History is being made tonight at New York's Metropolitan Opera: For the first time in 138 years, the eminent company will present an opera by a Black composer. After 18 months of pandemic-canceled...
Oct 6, 2021 · Opera. This article is more than 2 years old. Interview. ‘It was much bigger than me’: Terence Blanchard on being the Met Opera’s first Black composer. David Smith in Washington. The renowned...
Sep 6, 2023 · Two big announcements came down recently about the trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard — both monumental, neither one a surprise. In June, the National Endowment for the Arts announced...
Sep 23, 2021 · Terence Blanchard Is the Metropolitan Opera’s First Black Composer - The New York Times. A Black Composer Finally Arrives at the Metropolitan Opera. Terence Blanchard, best known for...
Sep 23, 2021 · Sept. 23, 2021. Like Wayne Shorter — to whom his newest album, “Absence,” is dedicated — Terence Blanchard is the rare jazz star whose renown as a composer almost overshadows his ...
Sep 27, 2021 · By Janell Ross. September 27, 2021 6:05 PM EDT. W hen the Metropolitan Opera reopens Monday after an 18-month closure caused by the pandemic, it will do so with Fire Shut Up In My Bones, the first...
