The movie Chevalier takes viewers to concert halls in 18th-century France, full of fanciful fashion, and zeroes in on the story of Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges. He was the ...

Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was an extraordinarily accomplished man in Marie Antoinette’s France. He was a scholar, a fencer, a virtuoso violinist and a famous and sought-after ...

In partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association, the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts and Concert Theater Works, Music of the Baroque presents the Midwest premiere of "The ...

“When I first heard about the project, I was very intrigued about it because I didn’t know anything about this historical figure,” shares Oliver Garcia about Joseph Bologne, the Black ...

It’s a striking image — a young Black man dressed in a waistcoat and silk breeches, his hair braided in cornrows, holds a violin, the bow slung over his shoulder, with the title “chevalier” emblazoned ...

There are few films about free people of color excelling in times of slavery; those that exist do not focus on classical music composition. In this regard, “Chevalier” is unique. The film tells the ...

Kelvin Harrison Jr. is electric in Stephen Williams' alternately raucous and staid biopic of Joseph Bologne. For a man who was very nearly lost from history — forcefully erased both during his time ...

It’s just a breath before the French Revolution when we are introduced to Joseph Bologne, a genius violinist and one of the only Black classical composers. Born to French slave owner George Bologne ...

Born a slave, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges was a prolific 18th-century composer who was also a master fencer, violin virtuoso and composer in Marie Antoinette’s court. But his story is largely ...

Composer Joseph Bologne was the son of a French plantation owner and an enslaved Senegalese woman. This handsome period drama tells the fascinating and little-known true story of Joseph Bologne, one ...

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