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Now Available: Premiere Recording Of Anthony Davis's Malcolm X Opera Starring Davone Tines
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AMT Public Relations
“The work is gripping, and it is unlike any other opera... X is a work that deserves to enter the American repertory... not just a stirring and well-fashioned opera but one whose music adds a new, individual voice to those previously heard in our opera houses.” —The New Yorker “Poignant…forceful…resonant” —The Boston Globe “A riveting and uncompromising work” —The New York Times Known as the nation’s foremost label launched by an orchestra and devoted exclusively to new music, Grammy Award-winning ...
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Terence Blanchard - Malcolm X: The Original Motion Picture Score (1991)
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Something Else!
If, during the opening strains of your DVD copy of “Malcolm X," you stop eating popcorn mid-munch, that's just fine with trumpeter Terence Blanchard. His original score for the 1991 Spike Lee film was designed to be anything but background music. Melancholy then snap-bean jazz and then jack-boot ominous, his score can only be described as huge: “Spike told me he wanted a large sound," Blanchard told me. And there was only one way to get it: Guest performers, and ...
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Michael Jefry Stevens and Malcolm Lynn Baker in an Exclusive Duo Concert
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Michael Ricci
