这一次,Terence Blanchard将作为乐队领袖,携手他精心打造的E-Collective乐队(E-Collective乐队融合了键盘、电吉他、电贝斯与鼓的多元编制,展现出强烈的跨界融合风格)和爵士弦乐界的领军组合Turtle Island Quartet,将电子音乐的现代感与原声乐器的温暖质感巧妙交织,带来获得格莱美“最佳器乐爵士专辑”奖和“最佳即兴爵士独奏”...
" laughed Blanchard. "What a moment. What a moment for people to see themselves. And they've never seen that on the stage at the Met."Dancers perform in "Fire Shut Up in My Bones."CBS News"What drew you to Charles Blow's story?""It was the notion of being isolated in your own ...
Terence Blanchard. Composer: BlacKkKlansman. A world renowned trumpeter/composer/band leader and Blue Note recording artist, Terence Blanchard is the most prolific jazz musician to ever compose for motion pictures. Blanchard was born and raised in New Or
based on the memoir of celebrated writer and The New York Times columnist Charles Blow. The libretto was written by Kasi Lemmons and commissioned by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis where it premiered in June 2019. The New York Times has called Blanchard’s opera “inspiring,”“subtly powerful”...
“When we were doing the opera “Fire” at The Met, I had conversations here in my house with Karen Slack and a dear friend of mine who passed away that was a great baritone,” Blanchard said. “His name was Arthur Woodley. I listened to them talk about how what we were ...
“Frankly,” Blanchard admits, “it’s something I’m still trying to wrap my mind around. When Jim Robinson [director of Blanchard’s first operatic outing,Champion, and co-director ofFire] asked me to write an opera, I thought he was drunk. And I have trouble be...
Terence Blanchard Turns A Tragic Champion Into An Opera HeroJacki Lyden
Terence Blanchard’s CHAMPION to Premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in April – Broadway World Terence Blanchard‘s opera Champion, based on the true story of the troubled former middleweight boxing champion Emile Griffith, will have its highly anticipated Metropolitan Opera premiere on April 10, with...
Entitled “See Me As I Am: Lincoln Center’s Year-Long Celebration of Terence Blanchard,” the event will see seven organizations, including Film at Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic...
The showing made Metropolitan Opera history: Blanchard became the first black composer(作曲家) to have his work performed here. About 4,000 people attended the event. Many in the crowd wore fancy clothes. The fans met with each other warmly, seeming to share in the joy they felt to be ba...