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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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

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... Read More

The episode features visits with New Orleans musicians including Terence Blanchard. Watch episode.

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... Read More