Terence Blanchard, a seven-time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award nominee, has been named the new executive artistic director at SFJAZZ.
Terence Blanchard, a seven-time Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award nominee, has been named the new executive artistic director at SFJAZZ.
Last year, when Randall Kline announced his intention to retire as executive artistic director of SFJAZZ, the obvious question was: how do you follow that? Today the San Francisco arts organization revealed its answer, naming composer, trumpeter and bandleader Terence Blanchard as its new creative leader, and Kline’s successor. READ MORE
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
Journalist Charles M. Blow once wrote in his New York Times column that he “likes to think of himself as a Southern writer.” His childhood in Gibsland, Louisiana, shaped his writing, and in the south, “you don’t so much say words as sing them.” Now, at Lyric Opera, his own story is literally being sung. But not exactly in his own words. Read More.
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