前言:很荣幸应Blue Note邀请对来访的NEA爵士大师、七届格莱美奖音乐家Terence Blanchard进行了一次面对面的深度专访。听他聊如何捏合一支现代乐队、他的电影与歌剧音乐的审美、爵士时代情怀与音乐潮流的开创。以下是全程专访内容。 在Blue Note现场的Terence Blanchard(摄影师shek) "缺席",《Absence》专辑同名曲,作品献给...
Blanchard的创作之旅,是一场对艺术无限可能的勇敢追寻,让人为之动容,他堪称真正的“文艺复兴”代表。 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...
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”...
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 nine performances running through May 13. Read More Posted on March 30, 2022 Coming of age...
the performers sing in the second act of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones. That message of survival in dark times was well-received by the thousands watching the Metropolitan Opera in New York City this week. Its theater went dark in March, 2020 in reaction to the COVID-19...
The Metropolitan Opera in New York opened its 2021-2022 season with a production by jazz trumpeter and composer Terence Blanchard. "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" isan interpretation of the memoir written by "Sunday Morning" contributor Charles Blow, in which he describes his anguish growing up in...
“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 ...
Terence Blanchard Turns A Tragic Champion Into An Opera HeroJacki Lyden
“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...