‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ was the first work by a Black composer to be staged by the Metropolitan Opera of New York.
Even though he grew up in the music mecca of New Orleans, Terence Blanchard wasn’t exactly jazzed about being a musician as a child.
on Feb. 8 at the Meyerson Symphony Center. The concert features soprano Karen Slack and bass-baritone Nicholas Newton. On Feb. 9, Blanchard will play at the Meyerson with his E-Collective jazz band performing alongside the Turtle Island String Quartet. There were times when stuff would come on television, Leontyne Price or André Previn, and my dad would be like, “Come here, boy. Sit down. Nowis music.” But he never pushed it on me. His whole thing was just like, “If you’re gonna play music, be serious about it.”
Numbness at first. The reality started to hit when they put out the press release and it went viral, and my phone started ringing off the hook. I didn’t know until then that I was the first African American to have a production at the Met.
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