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27 set 2010 · The Sonata Mulattica echoes repeatedly the words of Schuppanzigh, director of the Augarten concerts: "I see you brought along your shadow." From metaphorical assaults and the pain of racism mitigated by society upon a mulatto musician, who played for The Prince of Wales and Beethoven, the intense pain of darkness permeates the contrasts of light and darkness within the poems.
- Rita Dove
20 apr 2009 · Sonata Mulattica. April 20, 2009. Dove’s verse sequence re-creates the life of the biracial violinist George Bridgetower, best remembered for being the first performer, and the initial dedicatee ...
Years later, Sonata Mulattica is the result. Readers familiar with Dove’s work will recall that she employed a related strategy in Thomas and Beulah (1986), a biography-in-poems of her grandparents.
Sonata Mulattica offers a new perspective on the artistry of Beethoven, George Bridgetower, and (not incidentally) Rita Dove, combining historical reconstruction with an imaginative exploration of how history is relived and reanimated in the rituals of musical performance. With this film, Stone Soup is proud to help bring one of the great, yet ...
If you could see me. now, Father, you would cry—though you wept easily, as I remember, and even so it was manly, the way that thick black fist daubed your cheek with those extravagant sleeves quivering. I prefer to stand, cheek cushioned, and soothe her as I pull the sobs out, gently … yes, you hear it. You who made me can hear it— just ...
The Music and Poetry of Sonata MulatticaRita Dove’s acclaimed book Sonata Mulattica focuses on the relationship between Ludwig van Beethoven and biracial vio...
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- Kenyon Review
Sonata Mulattica, a huge accomplishment for one of our most acclaimed poets, works on many levels to give George Polgreen Bridgetower his due credit as a gifted violinist, particularly in the ways in which Dove handles form, content, and music. Had she not taken such care in these delicate elements, the forms would have felt contrived, the ...
