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“Terence Blanchard’s Met Opera debut Is a singular achievement and a shared success…magnetically powerful.” — NPR

Samara Joy “The close precision and frothy power of her voice stand out immediately … so does the depth of her comfort within the jazz tradition. — The New York Times

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Welcome to Texas Performing Arts! Thank you for joining us! We’re thrilled to share our all-new 23/24 performing arts season showcasing extraordinary international theatre, dance, and music that you won’t find anywhere else. A select lineup of 14 curated performances, this season features some of the most exciting new creations from around the world including bold projects from both established and emerging performance-makers. We are delighted to welcome back iconic artists and companies who have not been to Austin in recent years, including world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the celebrated Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. This season also kicks off a new phase of the partnership between TPA and Fusebox to present more adventurous live performance in Austin — six cutting-edge events that you won’t want to miss will make their Texas premieres this fall through next spring. You can explore the complete lineup and see all that we have to offer at texasperformingarts.org. The 23/24 TPA season complements our always-popular Broadway in Austin series and our Texas Welcomes lineup of concerts and comedy. We invite you to get inspired and join us at TPA this season to experience the very best in new performance. Let’s start the show!

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Beyond the Performance

At Texas Performing Arts we make sure engagement with the arts extends beyond the stage, both here on campus and in the community. Through workshops, discussions, youth performances, and more, we strive for everyone to be able to feed their artistic spirit.

UT students, area high school students, and community participants learned the moves to Hairspray's iconic number You Can't Stop the Beat, led by a touring company member.

A group of summer campers from the Carver Museum toured Bass Concert Hall in June and learned about the work that goes on behind the scenes.

Members of Latin Grammy-winning Flor de Toloache gathered with UT Mariachi Paredes students to play music and talk about how they got their start.

Local elementary students enjoyed Chicago-based Manual Cinema's Leonardo! A Wonderful Show About a Terrible Monster — a unique performance that used hundreds of illustrated paper puppets, costumes, and a live soundtrack to bring Mo Willems' acclaimed books to life.

This spring more than 1500 students (41 busloads!) were dazzled at a youth performance by Dance Theatre of Harlem in Bass Concert Hall. During this special presentation, company members took a moment to pose for a quick selfie.

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Our 23/24 Season is in full swing with a diverse lineup of extraordinary international theatre, music, and dance — and myriad new opportunities to connect with our performances. We invite you to get inspired and join us at TPA, the place for art in Austin. Here are a few highlights of our campus and community activities from this year.

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Take a Bow! Austin’s own Langston Lee Wins National Jimmy Award In June the most talented teenagers from across the country took the stage at the Minskoff Theatre in New York City for the 14th National High School Musical Theatre Awards®, better known as the Jimmys. Among them, two Austinarea students, Langston Lee and Kyra Carr had the opportunity to compete on the Broadway stage with 94 other nominees. This annual awards event is a coast-tocoast celebration of outstanding student achievement recognizing individual artistry in vocal, dance, and acting performance. Both Langston and Kyra are winners of the 2023 Heller Awards for Young Artists for leading roles in their high school musicals. This was the first year that Heller winners could compete at the national level, thanks to a partnership with Texas Performing Arts, a member of the Broadway League. At the end of an unforgettable evening of show-stopping performances, the top honor of Best Performance by an Actor was awarded to Langston.

Nurturing homegrown talent and guiding and supporting the next generation of artists is central to TPA's mission and we could not be happier for Langston, Kyra, and all of the nominees. Bravo!

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But the Jimmys is not only an awards event, it’s a once-in-lifetime opportunity for the students to learn what it takes to build a performing arts career through coaching sessions, training, and rehearsals led by some of Broadway’s most accomplished professionals. Austin's Langston Lee & Kyra Carr in NYC

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Terence Blanchard Fire Shut Up In My Bones: Excerpts in Concert

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Featuring the E-Collective and Turtle Island Quartet With Nicholas Newton, baritone, and Adrienne Danrich, soprano Visuals by Andrew F. Scott

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ABOUT TERENCE BLANCHARD Terence Blanchard has been a consistent artistic force for making powerful musical statements concerning painful American tragedies – past and present. He stands tall as one of jazz’s most-esteemed trumpeters and defies expectations by creating a spectrum of artistic pursuits. A seven-time Grammy Winner and twice Oscar-nominated film composer, Blanchard becomes only the second African-American composer to be nominated twice in the original score category at the 2022 Academy Awards, duplicating Quincy Jones’ feat from 1967’s In Cold Blood and 1985’s The Color Purple. Blanchard is also heralded as a two-time opera composer whose Fire Shut Up in My Bones, is based on the memoir of celebrated writer and New York Times columnist Charles Blow. The Metropolitan Opera premiered Fire Shut Up in My Bones on September 27, 2021, to open their 2021-22 season in New York, making it the first opera composed by an AfricanAmerican composer to premiere at the Met. The recording of those performances just received a Grammy nomination for “Best Opera Recording.” The New York Times labeled Blanchard’s opera “inspiring,” “subtly powerful” and “a bold affecting adaptation of Charles Blow’s work.” Of the historical moment, Blanchard said, “I don’t want to be a token, but a turnkey.” Blanchard’s first opera, Champion also premiered to critical acclaim in 2013 and starred Denyce

Graves with a libretto from Pulitzer Prize Winner, Michael Cristofer. Champion will be coming to the Met in April 2023. But there is a center of gravity. It’s Blanchard’s beautiful, provocative, inspiring jazz recordings that undergird all these projects. The same holds true now as it did early in his career in 1994 when he told DownBeat: “Writing for film is fun, but nothing can beat being a jazz musician, playing a club, playing a concert.” From his expansive work composing the scores for over 20 Spike Lee projects over three decades, ranging from the documentary When the Levees Broke to the latest Lee film, Da 5 Bloods, Blanchard has interwoven beautiful melodies that created strong backdrops to human stories like Regina King’s One Night in Miami; Kasi Lemmons’ Eve’s Bayou and Harriet; George Lucas’ Red Tails; the critically acclaimed drama series Perry Mason; the National Geographic limited series Genius: Aretha; Apple TV’s docuseries They Call Me Magic (for which Blanchard received his second Emmy nomination) and in theaters now, Gina Prince Bythewood and Viola Davis’ The Woman King. In his thirtieth year as a recording leader, Blanchard delivers Absence, a collaboration with his longtime E-Collective band and the acclaimed Turtle Island Quartet which received Grammy nominations in November 2021 for Best Instrumental Jazz Album and Best Improvised Jazz Solo for Blanchard. Recorded in February 2020 just before the Covid-19 lockdowns, Absence started out as a project to show gratitude to

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Wayne Shorter. “I knew that Wayne wasn’t feeling well at the time, so I wanted to honor him to let him know how much he has meant to me,” says Blanchard who today lives in Los Angeles as well as in his native New Orleans. “When you look at my own writing, you can see how much I’ve learned from Wayne. He mastered writing compositions starting with a simple melody and then juxtaposing it against the harmonies that come from a different place to make it come alive in a different light.” Regarding his consistent attachment to artistic works of conscience, Blanchard confesses, “You get to a certain age when you ask, ‘Who’s going to stand up and speak out for us?’ Then you look around and realize that the James Baldwins, Muhammad Alis and Dr. Kings are no longer here...and begin to understand that it falls on you. I’m not trying to say I’m here to try to correct the whole thing, I’m just trying to speak the truth.” In that regard, he cites unimpeachable inspirations. “Max Roach with his Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane playing Alabama, even Louis Armstrong talking about what was going on with his people any time he was interviewed. Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter who live by their Buddhist philosophy and try to expand the conscience of their communities. I’m standing on all their shoulders. How dare I come through this life having had the blessing of meeting those men and not take away any of that? Like anybody else, I’d like to play feel good party music but sometimes my music is about the reality of where we are.” November 2022 texasperformingarts.org

ABOUT FIRE SHUT UP IN MY BONES 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. Based on the acclaimed memoir by Charles M. Blow, this “opera in jazz,” as Blanchard describes it, tells the true coming-of-age story of a young man 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. “Magnetically powerful” NPR “A watershed moment for American opera … A defiant, tender, and vital work of art” The Washington Post

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PROGRAM NOTES The evening will include instrumental works by Terence Blanchard, The E-Collective, and Turtle Island Quartet, who will open and close the suite. The music from Fire Shut Up In My Bones presented in this format, arranged by David Balakrishnan, is not intended to replace the original work, which is written for orchestra, jazz quartet, full cast and is fully staged with costumes, sets and choreography. These arrangements are intended to give the audience a glimpse of Blanchard’s work in a format that may offer insight to the original production. We suggest that you also see the opera in one of its staged productions to understand the context of this suite. Order and titles of works once the suite begins: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

Tears of Anger & Shame – Charles Don’t Be In Such A Rush – Billie & Charles Leave It In The Road – Billie Golden Button – Charles & Destiny Peculiar Grace – Destiny Peculiar Grace (Instrumental) There Was A Storm – Charles A Piece for Billie – Billie The Night Brings You – Charles & Greta Peculiar Grace Reprise – Charles

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Samara Joy A Joyful Holiday Featuring The McLendon Family In this special holiday show, Samara Joy performs with three generations of her family on dreamy, gospel-infused interpretations of Christmas gems O Holy Night, The Christmas Song, Warm in December, and more.

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VOCALS Samara Joy, Antonio McLendon, Laurone McLendon, Tommy Niblack, T Lovey Rowe PIANO, B3 Shedrick Mitchell BASS Eric Wheeler DRUMS Charles Haynes

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ABOUT SAMARA JOY With her Grammy-Award winning and chart-topping album, Linger Awhile, 23-year-old Samara Joy makes her case to join the likes of Sarah, Ella, and Billie as the next mononymous jazz singing sensation recorded by the venerable Verve Records. Her voice, rich and velvety yet precociously refined, has already earned her fans like Anita Baker and Regina King and appearances on the Today Show, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CBS Mornings, Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Hudson, and more, in addition to millions of likes on TikTok—cementing her status as perhaps the first Gen Z jazz singing star. The New York Times praised the “silky-voiced rising star” for “helping jazz take a youthful turn” while NPR’s All Things Considered named her a “classic jazz singer from a new generation.” In February 2023, Samara Joy took home two Grammys—Best Jazz Vocal Album and the auspicious Best New Artist award. Samara is still relatively new to jazz. Growing up in the Bronx, it was music of the past—the music of her parent’s childhoods, as she put it—that she listened to most. She treasures her musical lineage, which stretches back to her grandparents Elder Goldwire and Ruth McLendon, both of whom performed with Philadelphia gospel group the Savettes, and runs through her father, who is a singer, songwriter and producer who toured with gospel artist Andraé Crouch. “Sometimes I catch myself when I’m singing—I’m like, ‘Whoa, that was a dad moment’,”

Samara quips. Eventually, she did follow in the family tradition, singing in church and then with the jazz band at Fordham High School for the Arts, with whom she won Best Vocalist at JALC’s Essentially Ellington competition. That led to her enrolling in SUNY Purchase’s jazz studies program, where she fell deeply in love with the music. Though she’s young, she relishes the process of digging through the music’s history. “I think maybe people connect with the fact that I’m not faking it, that I already feel embedded in it,” Samara says. “Maybe I’m able to reach people in person and on social media because it’s real.” The gatekeepers of the jazz world tend to agree: in 2019, she won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition, and she’s since performed with legends like Christian McBride and Bill Charlap. Legendary late pianist Barry Harris was a particularly important influence and mentor. “You inspired me as well as many others with this fire for teaching and playing that couldn’t be dimmed by anything or anyone,” Samara writes in Linger Awhile’s liner notes, dedicating the project in part to Harris’ memory. On Linger Awhile, which was produced by Matt Pierson and recorded by Chris Allen at Sear Sound in NYC, Samara is accompanied by esteemed veterans: her former professors, guitarist Pasquale Grasso and drummer Kenny Washington, form the core of the band, which also includes bassist David Wong and pianist Ben Paterson. With ease and a preternatural assurance, Samara swings right alongside them through understated

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yet powerful renditions of this creative collection of standards. There are burnished, gleaming versions of chestnuts in Misty, Linger Awhile, and Someone to Watch Over Me, transporting listeners to some romantic, longlost supper club. Those familiar tunes are listed alongside some more unusual, if equally vintage selections: Sweet Pumpkin, a Ronnell Bright tune performed by the likes of Blue Mitchell and Gloria Lynne, and Can’t Get Out of This Mood, which Samara uncovered on a collection of Sarah Vaughan rarities, add a lilting, upbeat

bent to the album’s selections. “When I heard the lyrics, I was like, ‘OK, this is positive—it’s not as much about heartbreak,” Samara says of Mood. “I liked the way I felt after hearing her singing it, and hopefully I can create the same feeling for people when they hear that song.” Samara aims for the opposite on a spine-tingling version of Guess Who I Saw Today, originally popularized by Nancy Wilson. This gently grieving rendition showcases the young singer’s exceptional control and range, as well as her refined, distinctive style.

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Marrying Samara’s interest in classic standards as well as cratedigging is her take on the iconic Thelonious Monk tune Round Midnight—instead of the traditional lyrics, Samara sings those written by Jon Hendricks, which she had only heard in a vintage TV performance by Carmen McRae. “Those lyrics haven’t been recorded that much—so even though it’s a song that a lot of people know, this is a different take on it,” Samara says. It’s the only song on the album that includes a horn section, including trumpeter Terell Stafford, trombonist Donavan Austin, and finally tenor saxophonist Kendric McCallister, who is responsible for the arrangement, a transformation of Cootie Williams’ original. A concept that will likely be foreign to Samara’s TikTok following is that of vocalese, a jazz technique showcased across Linger Awhile. Nostalgia (The Day I Knew) was the product of a jazz transcription class she took with trumpet master Jon Faddis at SUNY Purchase, in which she took down Fats Navarro’s solo from the original 1947 recording and wrote her own lyrics to that melody—inspired, she quips, by the teen romance novels she was reading. She went through the same process with I’m Confessin’, combining that song’s original lyrics with her own, set to Lester Young’s 1952 solo. Especially for a contemporary listener, hearing how seamlessly Samara transforms these instrumental lines into breezy lyrics is astounding. Also included on Linger Awhile is Social Call, co-written by vocalese pioneer Hendricks and Gigi Gryce — a fitting, beautiful tribute to those who paved the texasperformingarts.org

way for Samara’s exploration of this often-overlooked subgenre. This holiday season, Samara will release her first collection of holiday music, A Joyful Holiday EP. The six-song collection of seasonal favorites is an extension of her latest album Linger Awhile and features a similar cast of jazz musicians—Pasquale Grasso on guitar, David Wong on bass, and Kenny Washington on drums—plus Sullivan Fortner on piano. The tracklist includes previously-released singles O Holy Night (performed with multiple generations of her family) and Warm in December, in addition to a new recording of Stevie Wonder’s Twinkle Twinkle Little Me and both a studio and live version of The Christmas Song. The holiday EP is just one more step for the ascendant, twotime Grammy-winning vocalist, who has spent the past several months touring all over the world on increasingly larger stages— still shocked to be performing in front of thousands who hang on every word. “I’m still very much a student, even though I’ve graduated,” Samara says. “So, this is only the beginning… there is much, much more to come.”

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