The 2021-2022 season will open with Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” featuring a libretto by Kasi Lemmons based on the best-selling memoir by New York Times columnist Charles Blow, which marks the first presentation of an opera by a Black composer in the Met’s 137-year history. Read More.
Met Opera Skips This Season, 1st Black Composer Opens ’21-22, US News
The Metropolitan Opera will skip an entire season for the first time in its nearly 140-year history and intends to return from the pandemic layoff next September with the company’s first presentation of a Black composer, Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones.” Read More.
Toronto International Film Fest To Honor Terence Blanchard With Variety Artisan Award, Offbeat Magazine
New Orleans musician, composer and educator Terence Blanchard is already an Academy Award-nominated and a multiple Grammy Award-winning mind. Now, he can add Variety Artisan Award winner to his CV, thanks to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Read More.
Composer Commentary: Terence Blanchard – Scoring “Da 5 Bloods”, Sony Soundtracks
Black Protest Is Music. Learning The Melody Isn’t Enough, NPR
I really don’t know where to start. This past month, this past year, has been such an onslaught of terrible images and deeds and utter sorrow, and so many thoughts have been going through my mind at once that it’s hard to organize them. So please give me a moment, and I will try to put them in some kind of order. Read More.
‘Da 5 Bloods’ Composer Terence Blanchard on That Opening Scene and His Relationship with Spike Lee, Collider
Composer and musician Terence Blanchard is synonymous with the work of Spike Lee. Starting with 1991’s Jungle Fever, Blanchard has composed the score for almost every single Spike Lee joint, and the musician’s work is as striking and diverse as Lee’s films. Read More.
Jazz musician Terence Blanchard on ‘Da 5 Bloods,’ Spike Lee, and the current civil unrest, KCRW
Terence Blanchard talks with KCRW about how he composed music for “Da 5 Bloods” and his experiences living as a Black father in America. Read More.
The Wrenching ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ Becomes an Opera, New York Times
This new work, with music by Terence Blanchard and a libretto by Kasi Lemmons, is a bold and affecting adaptation of Charles Blow’s memoir. Read More.
Abu Dhabi TV: New Orleans
The episode features visits with New Orleans musicians including Terence Blanchard. Watch episode.
Jazz musician Terence Blanchard on the hardest thing about composing for film, PBS News Hour
Jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard has six Grammy Awards, but this year, he’s received his first Oscar nomination, for his original score in the 2018 film “BlacKkKlansman.” Listen.