The Hartford Symphony Orchestra Presents 2025 Masterworks Concerts: Fire Shut Up in My Bones

April 24, 2025 | Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Carolyn Kuan, conductor
Terrence Blanchard, trumpet
Janinah Burnett, soprano
Will Liverman, baritone
Terence Blanchard Ensemble

Selections from Terence Blanchard’s Film Scores
Arias from the opera Fire Shut Up in My Bones

Terence Blanchard and his band The E-Collective have teamed up with visual artist Andrew F. Scott to create a new live concert experience with orchestra that features excerpts from Blanchard’s groundbreaking Opera, Fire Shut Up In My Bones performed by the composer’s own incredible ensemble, Janinah Burnett, soprano and Will Liverman, baritone. The music and Scott’s video projections give the audience a look inside the mind of Blanchard, and the gravitational pull of the moment that he has created. To round out this program, Blanchard, his band and Scott will perform excerpts from Blanchard’s award-winning. 

This production premiered at Dallas Symphony in February 2023.

Concert Sponsors:
Fairview Capital
Greater Hartford Arts Council
John Guy & Paula Silas Guy