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'Chevalier' review: A stirring tribute to a virtuoso nearly erased by history

"Chevalier" begins with a showdown sequence so irresistible it really doesn't matter if it ever actually happened. In a jewel-box Paris theater sometime in the second half of the 18th century, a young violinist (Joseph Prowen) leads an orchestra, practically dancing in his glee at performing. "My name is Wolfgang…

Tribune News Service · Apr 20, 2023

Beautiful ‘Chevalier’ fills in the gaps, fictionally, about fascinating Black composer

Film is a worthwhile bio of the scholar, fencer and virtuoso violinist with effective acting, tension and sumptuous production.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 20, 2023

Review: In ‘Chevalier,’ an Erased Figure Gets a Lush Biopic

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 composer who wrote string quartets, symphonies and operas. His influence was vast, but he was all but erased from history books…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 19, 2023

‘I’ve been trying to play Mozart for 60 years. On this, my last recording, I think I’ve finally cracked it’

Mozart’s sublime music is deceptively difficult to play. Conductor Roger Norrington explains how the composer’s own father helped rewire brains and eradicate wobble

The Guardian - UK · Sep 6, 2022

Chromatics Ensemble will perform operatic music from across centuries

Chromatics, an ensemble of soloists, returns to the stage with a concert at Goethe Institut

The Hindu · Jun 29, 2022

NCPA musicians come to Chennai with Mozart’s Overture to the ‘Marriage of Figaro’

For the first time since the pandemic began, the Symphony Orchestra of India returns to the national stage with a series of concerts outside of its hometown Mumbai

The Hindu · Jun 17, 2022

Hear works of three master composers

The Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra will take music lovers to explore the power of the orchestra in a classical programme of works by three of history's most renowned composers of orchestral music.

Bangkok Post · May 4, 2022

The 25 best Oscar-winning movies you should watch before you die

Make sure you tick these award-winning movies off your watch list this Oscar season

Total Film · Mar 25, 2022

RBSO serves up a treat

Roeland Hendrikx, a renowned Belgian clarinetist, enthralled the audience earlier this month at the Thailand Cultural Centre with an engaging performance of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto In A Major. The concerto was the last instrumental composition Mozart wrote just before his death for Anton Sadler, one of the most…

Bangkok Post · Feb 24, 2022