The New York Times – Music:
After making history as the Metropolitan Opera’s first work by a Black composer, Terence Blanchard’s “Fire” is back — with its showstopping step dance.
Category: Blanchard, Terence
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Terence Blanchard and Anthony Davis in Close-Up at Jazz Concerts
The New York Times – Music:
Terence Blanchard and Anthony Davis, recent pioneers at the Metropolitan Opera, returned to earlier works in a pair of performances over the weekend.
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North Carolina Radio Station Won’t Ban Met Opera Broadcasts After All
The New York Times – Music:
The station, which had called the Met’s newer operas unsuitable because of their “difficult music” and “adult themes and harsh language,” reversed course.
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Terence Blanchard, Pushing Jazz Forward From a New Perch
The New York Times – Music:
The trumpeter and composer follows the premiere of two Met operas with an appointment as executive artistic director of SFJazz in San Francisco and a Jazz Masters honor.
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Putting the Brutality of a Prize Fight on the Met Opera Stage
The New York Times – Sports:
Terence Blanchard’s “Champion,” about the fighter Emile Griffith, is the rare opera to engage with sports. A boxing consultant helped keep it gritty.
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Review: ‘Champion,’ at the Met Opera, Spars With History
The New York Times – Music:
Terence Blanchard’s jazz-inflected work tells the real-life story of the boxer Emile Griffith, haunted by guilt when an opponent died after a fight.
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‘Hey, Mr. Living Composer’: ‘Champion’ Takes Shape at the Met
The New York Times – Music:
Terence Blanchard has been in rehearsals, with pencil and paper at the ready, as he tailors his opera ahead of its New York premiere.
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Classical Music to See and Hear in Spring 2023
The New York Times – Music:
This spring, Gustavo Dudamel, the Philharmonic’s next music director, conducts the big deal symphony, the Met Opera stages Terence Blanchard’s “Champion”; and in Chicago, Riccardo Muti says farewell.
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‘A Jazzman’s Blues’ Review: Tyler Perry Revisits a Jim Crow-Era Romance
The New York Times – Music:
The writer-director returns to his first screenplay — a dark melodrama with soulful musical numbers — after two decades.