Book by Rita Dove Being Made Into a Feature-Length Documentary Film
Filed in Books on May 24, 2013
Rita Dove, the former poet laureate of the United States and current Commonweath Professor of English at the University of Virginia, is the author of Sonata Mulattica, a 2009 book on George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower, a nineteenth-century Afro-European violin virtuoso. Bridgetower was the child of a Polish woman and an Afro-Caribbean man. He was a child prodigy and played violin before the kings and queens of Europe. Bridgewater was friend of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Now the story of Bridgetower is being made into a documentary film by Stone Soup Productions of Washington, D.C. The film will also tell the story of Professor Dove’s research on Bridgetower and include a profile of Joshua Coyne, a current day violinist.
The documentary is scheduled for release sometime in 2014. You can view the movie trailer below.
Looking forward for this documentary. Looks like a job well done. Should be highly marketed since little is known of this research. Informative and enjoyable.