Tag: Mozart
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Where to Stream ‘Chevalier’
The true story of Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, a prominent mixed-race composer, musician, and soldier comes to life on the big screen in the new film Chevalier from Searchlight Pictures. The movie opens with Bologne challenging none other than Mozart to a violin duel on stage, leading to his nickname “The Black Mozart.” Though…
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Chevalier review – entertainingly soapy portrait of a Black 18th-century maestro
Kelvin Harrison Jr commands the screen in Stephen Williams’s brashly anachronistic drama about the French composer, violin virtuoso and champion fencer Joseph BologneIn 1985, Miloš Forman’s screen adaptation of Peter Shaffer’s stage play Amadeus swept the Academy Awards, winning eight Oscars, including best picture. In that acclaimed film, F Murray Abraham’s Antonio Salieri seethed at…