The Jazz Club is pleased to assist the Salmar Society in promoting its screening of the new Terence Blanchard opera "Fire Shut Up in My Bones”. This is an encore presentation of an HD Live Metropolitan Opera production. Fire Shut Up in My Bones is an English-language opera in three acts, with music by Terence Blanchard and libretto by Kasi Lemmons.
Terence Blanchard is best known as a brilliant jazz trumpeter and composer who honed his chops with Lionel Hampton and then the Jazz Messengers. He later went on to become a leading performer and brilliant screen composer. He also had multiple cameos in the great TV series Treme, filmed in his hometown of New Orleans.
In this Met Premiere, three of today’s most captivating artists--baritone Will Liverman and sopranos Angel Blue and Latonia Moore--join forces in Terence Blanchard’s explosive new opera. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. This is the second opera from the five-time Grammy Award-winning trumpeter and composer, Terence Blanchard. It makes history this season as the first opera by a Black composer to be performed by the Met. But beyond this important milestone, the work itself takes audiences on a profound, often painful, musical and dramatic journey.
In this opera Blanchard adapted New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow’s harrowing memoir. Featuring a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, the opera follows Charles through a series of formative points in his adolescence, all of which lead him to a fateful moment. After struggling to break free from a childhood of trauma and abuse, he must decide whether he is ready to leave it in the past and begin to rebuild his life.
To tell this story, Blanchard conjures a sound world that weaves together jazz and gospel idioms, probing and incisive melodies and an intricate orchestral palette. It is a powerful creation befitting a composer whose work also includes multiple Academy Award-nominated film scores.
NOTE: This event will be screened at the Salmar Classic Theatre. The Salmar Community Association is a Jazz Club sponsor, having provided us with much needed financial assistance during the development of our organization.
ADMISSION: $16 adults, $10 youths
