THEY SHOOT, HE SCORES
one of Hollywood’s preeminent composers, having scored 20 of Spike Lee’s projects—including last year’s , which earned him his first Oscar nomination—and , Kasi Lemmons’s upcoming biopic of abolitionist Harriet Tubman. Blanchard has also begun experimenting with opera, most recently writing the music for (based on the columnist Charles M. Blow’s 2014 memoir), which premiered at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis in June. “I’ve always been a believer that the
