You got it.' This, no: One baritone is so different from the next baritone, one tenor is different from another. When you write for a quintet, you go, 'Okay, I know what the tenor does, I know what the trumpet does, the bass. "It's not like writing for an orchestra, or writing for a band. "The operatic voice is so unique, each voice," he says. Still, Blanchard says opera presents a unique challenge. There's a jazz quartet embedded into the Met Orchestra for the opera, but much of the music sounds more like Blanchard's work in Hollywood, where he has written the music for more than 40 films. "I'm trying to take American folklore that I know, that I've experienced, which is jazz," he says, "and bring that into the operatic world, but not totally use the entire piece to make a statement about jazz." Rather, he calls it "an opera in Jazz." What he means to do, he explains, is similar to what Stravinsky did in bringing folkloric music into the classical realm. Blanchard is a jazz composer, but he says Fire Shut Up in My Bones is not a jazz opera.
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