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Podcast: Art Works Podcast
Episode: Terence Blanchard
Description: We're celebrating Jazz Appreciation month with an in-depth conversation with composer and jazz musician Terence Blanchard. Terence Blanchard has a long list of exceptional jazz credentials, but  most recently he’s found acclaim as the first Black composer to compose an opera—Fire Shut Up in My Bones—presented by the Metropolitan Opera. In this podcast, he discusses how he came to write Fire Shut Up in My Bones (which was funded in part by the Arts Endowment), the bitter-sweetness of its Met premiere, how he works with collaborators in jazz, in opera and in film—especially his long collaborat...