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This week, Bodhi Tree Concerts' 'The Best of Gershwin & Gershwin,' country singer Sara Evans and pianist Wynona Wang

Based on the 2014 memoir by New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow, the opera’s title is drawn directly from the biblical story of Jeremiah, the severely persecuted “weeping prophet” known for his tender heart. But it is a deeply personal and contemporary story.

A major, compelling work by one of the most important, new composing voices in opera.   

After becoming the first opera by a Black composer to show at the Met, Chicago gets Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up In My Bones.