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Terence Blanchard’s ‘Champion’ opera shows the haunting polarity between Black queerness and Black...
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 1 year agoREVIEW: “Champion” is the second opera by a Black composer to play the New York Metropolitan Opera...
Met premieres Blanchard's `Champion,' an `opera in jazz'
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWhen Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” proved a sell-out hit at the Metropolitan Opera...
Review: ‘Champion’ at Lyric Opera delivers the full force of a boxer’s painful story
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThree different singers play the welterweight boxer Emile Griffith in Lyric Opera’s visceral production of Terence Blanchard’s 2013 jazz opera “Champion.” That’s not uncommon in biographical ...
The Met’s revival of ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ brings the complexity of Black manhood to the...
TheGrio via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAfter a history-making 2021 debut, “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” returns to New York’s Metropolitan...
Herbie Hancock is both a master and child at heart in a life-affirming Milwaukee concert
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 months agoYou've got to expect the unexpected with Herbie Hancock. It's a key reason, less than 10 days shy of...
Tyler Perry's A Jazzman's Blues Is a Satisfying Historical Melodrama Decades in the Making
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTyler Perry may not always have control of the tone, but his vision is welcome in a world where so...
Review: A classic battle epic in ‘The Woman King’
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoViola Davis should have been leading armies this whole time. Directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood, who cannot be pigeonholed, the film is a throwback of...
Q&A: Tyler Perry on directing his 1st script, 27 years later
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTyler Perry has directed his first screenplay, 27 years after writing it. “A Jazzman's Blues,” which...
Amirah Vann on Bringing Tyler Perry’s Vision to Life in ‘A Jazzman’s Blues’ and ‘Queen Sugar’s’...
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen Tyler Perry wrote the screenplay for “A Jazzman’s Blues” in 1995, he imagined Diana Ross in the...
‘Wayne Shorter: Zero Gravity’ Review: Amazon’s Docuseries Aims Beyond Formula to Hit the High Notes
The Hollywood Reporter via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAwards, sure — over his 60-odd-year career, Wayne Shorter amassed his share of prizes and honors....