{"id":39673,"date":"2015-01-25T02:44:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-25T02:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39673"},"modified":"2015-01-25T02:44:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T02:44:15","slug":"u-va-poetry-professor-rita-doves-sonata-mulattica-to-be-adapted-for-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39673","title":{"rendered":"U.Va. Poetry Professor Rita Dove\u2019s \u2018Sonata Mulattica\u2019 to be Adapted for Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

U.Va. Poetry Professor Rita Dove\u2019s \u2018Sonata Mulattica\u2019 to be Adapted for Film<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

UVA Today<\/a>
\nCharlottesville, Virginia
\n2013-05-07<\/p>\n

Anne E. Bromley<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Associate<\/p>\n

Little did poet Rita Dove<\/a> know when she published her book, \u201cSonata Mulattica<\/a>,\u201d that it would go beyond rescuing from obscurity a 19th-century, Afro-European violin virtuoso named George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now that book of poems and a play-in-verse penned by Dove, Commonwealth Professor of English in the University of Virginia\u2019s College of Arts & Sciences, is becoming the subject of a documentary not only about Dove writing about Bridgetower, but also featuring the contemporary story of African-American violin virtuoso and composer Joshua Coyne<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The National Endowment for the Arts recently awarded nonprofit Stone Soup Productions an Art Works grant to help the film company, Spark Media, produce the feature-length documentary, also to be named \u201cSonata Mulattica<\/a>.\u201d…<\/p>\n