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Terence Blanchard to celebrate album, Met Opera debut at Music Hall

Special to Seacoastonline

Composer Terence Blanchard's opera "Fire Shut Up In My Bones" will be livecast from the Metropolitan Opera at The Music Hall in Portsmouth on Sunday, Oct. 31.

PORTSMOUTH - On Saturday, Nov. 13, the two-time Oscar nominee, five-time Grammy-winning trumpeter, and composer Terence Blanchard celebrates the life and legacy of mentor, Wayne Shorter, with his new album "Absence." Blanchard celebrates both the brilliance of Shorter’s legacy and the inspiration he has given Blanchard, influencing his ever-expanding amalgam of music and storytelling.

For this monumental task, Blanchard will unite his internationally acclaimed band of young musical pioneers, The E-Collective with the double Grammy-winning Turtle Island Quartet. The Nov. 13 performance will be both live at the Historic Theater and livestreamed.

Composer and trumpeter Terence Blanchard will perform a concert at The Music Hall in Portsmouth to celebrate his new album, "Absence," on Nov. 13.

This coincides with Blanchard’s second opera, "Fire Shut Up in My Bones," opening the Metropolitan Opera’s season, and on The Music Hall’s screen on Sunday, Oct. 31. Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir, is the first opera by a Black composer presented on the Met stage, and has been dubbed “bold and affecting” and “subtly powerful” by the New York Times.

The Met Opera screening of "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" will be at The Music Hall on Sunday, Oct. 31, at 12:55 p.m. "Absence: Terence Blanchard" concert will be at The Music Hall on Saturday, Nov. 13, at 8 p.m.

For tickets, go to TheMusicHall.org, call 603-436-2400, or visit the box office at 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth..