Kelvin Harrison Jr. in the film CHEVALIER. Photo by Larry Horricks. Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures.
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Behind the music in ‘Chevalier’

Mozart. Bach. Chopin. Beethoven. We remember these men as the masters of composition of their time. But for decades – centuries, really – one name has been left off of that list.  Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was a Caribbean-French composer, a virtuoso on the violin, and at one point the conductor of Paris’ leading symphony. […]