The Claudia and David Hatcher Series
Terence Blanchard “Fire Shut Up in My Bones”

Event details
- Friday | November 10 | 8:00 PM
- Cullen Theater, Wortham Theater Center
- 501 Texas Ave. Houston TX 77002
- 713-524-5050 | boxoffice@dacamera.com
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Terence Blanchard: Fire Shut Up in My Bones
Terence Blanchard E-Collective; Nicholas Newton, baritone; Adrienne Danrich, soprano; Turtle Island Quartet
Projections by visual artist Andrew F. Scott
Terence Blanchard’s opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones made history in 2021 as the first opera written by a Black composer to be staged at the Metropolitan Opera. This “opera in jazz,” as Blanchard describes it, tells the true coming-of-age story of a young boy growing up in the face of great adversity and forging his personal identity. Now, Terence Blanchard brings us a new suite of music from the opera, performed by the celebrated trumpeter and his E-Collective, the Grammy Award-winning Turtle Island Quartet and vocalists Nicholas Newton and Adrienne Danrich.
Terence Blanchard, the E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet open and close the evening with sets of their grooving, funk-inflected jazz.
“Magnetically powerful” – NPR
“A fresh, affecting work … Poetic, poignant, sometimes grimly funny, always dramatically effective.” — The New York Times
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