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How I Co-Wrote An Opera About A Black Policeman’s Son Shot By Another Policeman

MUSIC Posted: June 18, 2020 9:02 am

Tazewell Thompson, creator, with composer Jeanine Tesori, of Blue, which the Music Critics Association of North America has named best new opera of the year: “I wrote it from an obsessive need and sense of responsibility to tell an intimate story behind the numbing numbers of boys and men who are killed. But here we are now: art imitating life, life imitating art. Unfortunately, the themes in Blue have no expiration date. … Our eyes will never be free of tears.” – The New York Times

MUSIC Published: 06.17.20

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