A forgotten roll of film shot near Charlottesville VA resurfaces, revealing a quiet collaboration with guitarist Willie De at the abandoned Swannanoa estate in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

When we talk about George Augustus Polgreen Bridgetower (1778–1860) we tend to leap from one dazzling highlight to another: the child prodigy who, at age ten, performed a Viotti concerto in Paris before an audience that included Thomas Jefferson, to the electrifying 1803 Vienna premiere of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9 in A major, Op. 47—the fiery work later rededicated as the “Kreutzer” Sonata after the famous falling-out between the two musicians.

The Augarten was not merely a picturesque garden. Established as a public park in 1775 by Emperor Joseph II, it was one of the first civic green spaces in Europe. At its entrance, an inscription still proclaims it a place “Allen Menschen gewidmeter Erlustigungs-Ort von ihrem Schätzer.” The translation is eloquent: Place of recreation dedicated to all people by their admirer.

The official story says his father migrated with him and his brother Frederick Jr., eventually landing as musicians in the House of Esterházy, some 30 miles from Vienna. But nothing is ever said about why they would leave what some imagine as a cozy, romantic enclave in the heart of Galicia in the first place. From Rita Dove’s Sonata.

It feels profoundly meaningful to reunite with Rita after all these years — to extend the conversation that began in Rita Dove: An American Poet into a new creative horizon. Much has changed since we first filmed together, but the essence remains: a shared belief that art — whether written, sung, or filmed — has the power to make history visible and to make the invisible resonate.

This post draws on recent scholarly analysis of Haydn's employment contracts and Rita Dove's groundbreaking work in "Sonata Mulattica" to explore the intersection of servitude, genius, and race in classical music history.

Poet Rita Dove's visit to George Bridgetower's catacombs inspires a new documentary exploring the forgotten violinist who once performed with Beethoven. Poet Rita Dove once descended into a London catacombs to pay respects to George Bridgetower, the brilliant violinist whose collaboration with Beethoven has been largely erased from history. Her pilgrimage, recount

We're thrilled to announce our upcoming documentary project that promises to be one of our most ambitious and compelling films yet. Following the success of our previous collaboration on "Rita Dove: An American Poet," we're reuniting with the legendary poet laureate Rita Dove to bring her critically acclaimed work "Sonata Mulattica" to cinematic life.

En agosto me instalo en el estudio del escultor Daniel Chester French en Massachussetts por dos semanas. La idea es pensar en un film documental sobre su relaciono con los espacios. Al menos así surge del requerimiento inicial. Nunca se sabe. -- Eduardo Montes-Bradley

Before becoming a distinguished cinematographer in Argentina during the 1940s, Peter Paul Weinschenk, as a German exile in Barcelona, produced some of the most remarkable documentary images of the Spanish Civil War.

Back in October, I was approached to produce a film about Alice Parker, the renowned teacher, and composer, at the time, I was only fifty-nine and a half, a child. My first move was to travel to The Berkshires to meet Alice at home, a 17th-century cottage nestled in the foothills, covered in snow, and by the rapid stream, she calls the Singing Brook.

Albemarle County is one of the most beautiful regions in the United States where town & country share common grounds and profound links to the historical, and often troublesome roots of this great nation of ours. Charlottesville lays at the center of it all. I've been here for ten years now, and its surrounding beauty still draws me to the fields and the streets every chance I get. Posdata: Cada uno goza como puede.

Pablo Tabernero arrives in Berlin in time for the premiere of "Metropolis", a film that comes to reaffirm the will of the public in times of political turmoil and unrest. A few months later he joined as an apprentice to Marie Böhm at Becker & Maass. Böhm was a famed and distinguished photographer known for her portraits of dancers and movie stars from all over Europe. According to his descendants, Tabernero might have participated as a camera assistant during a photoshoot wit

Crecimos viendo películas extranjeras en su versión original, subtituladas. El doblaje nos pareció desde siempre una aberración, una canallada. Escuchar a Woody Allen doblado por una voz madrileña nos produjo desde siempre un profundo desaliento.

Growing up I watched my father at work on the design of the jackets of the LPs published by Discos Qualiton, a record label he cofounded with a handful of friends in the 60s. In those days my father would cut out strips of paper, columns of text, paintings and drawings, carefully arrange them and paste them onto a board to create the album artwork. This original would then be photographed and the resulting negative split into four basic colors and delivered to the printers.

"We were, very frankly, the first group that mixed blacks and whites on stages in the South. There were a lot of mayors that didn’t know we integrated their hotels, too. We’ve had, in the South, capital cities, we’ve had the front three rows, which are the expensive rows, get up and leave as our group walked on stage. But we never cancelled a concert. In some respects, we led that crusade in the Arts.” Robert Shaw.

The Other Madisons documents the story of Black descendants of President James Madison.

Eduardo Montes Bradley, el mismo de «Soriano», elude hacer una obra definitiva. Lo que ha querido hacer, y lo consigue, es una obra incisiva, lo cual es mucho más interesante. Vale la pena.

El cineasta Eduardo Montes Bradley salva los problemas del cine biográfico, sencillamente gracias a un vaivén de temas y de años, que saltan sin repetirse, de forma amable, como una conversación acerca del amigo. No es una biografía, es una semblanza hecha con adecuado montaje. «Tampoco pintemos a un santo», recuerda uno de los testimoniantes, Pasquini Durán, en charla de ex compañeros de redacción. En efecto, aquí también hay espacio para quienes critican cosas de Soriano, l

El realizador Eduardo Montes Bradley tuvo que lidiar con la memoria de un autor inmensamente popular, muy querido y respetado en el gremio de prensa y fallecido no hace mucho. Soriano no es, sin embargo, un producto desdeñable: será útil para los jóvenes en general e insoslayable para los miles que estudian periodismo. Y que si desechan ciertas rémoras de la obra, como por ejemplo si Osvaldo Soriano (1943-1997) era resistido por las capillas literarias, podrán apreciar al que