{"id":59576,"date":"2023-04-02T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/2023\/04\/02\/alex-cortright-speaks-with-director-stephen-williams-about-his-new-feature-film-chevalier\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T15:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T19:59:59","slug":"alex-cortright-speaks-with-director-stephen-williams-about-his-new-feature-film-chevalier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/2023\/04\/02\/alex-cortright-speaks-with-director-stephen-williams-about-his-new-feature-film-chevalier\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Cortright speaks with director Stephen Williams about his new feature film, Chevalier"},"content":{"rendered":"<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-59576-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/wtmd-od.streamguys1.com\/WTMDArtistInterviewsPodcast\/20260702145948-AFF-Chevalier-stephen-williams-BCAST.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/wtmd-od.streamguys1.com\/WTMDArtistInterviewsPodcast\/20260702145948-AFF-Chevalier-stephen-williams-BCAST.mp3\">https:\/\/wtmd-od.streamguys1.com\/WTMDArtistInterviewsPodcast\/20260702145948-AFF-Chevalier-stephen-williams-BCAST.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Alex Cortright speaks with director Stephen Williams about his new feature film, <i>Chevalier<\/i>, inspired by the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner who rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette and her court. <i>Chevalier<\/i> can be seen at the Opening Night of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annapolisfilmfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Annapolis Film Festival<\/a> on Thursday, March 23, 2023 at Maryland Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Cortright speaks with director Stephen Williams about his new feature film, Chevalier, inspired by the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/2023\/04\/02\/alex-cortright-speaks-with-director-stephen-williams-about-his-new-feature-film-chevalier\/\"> [&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":59578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1330,265],"tags":[562,1331],"class_list":["post-59576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artist-interviews","category-wtmd-artist-interview-archive","category-wtmd-news","tag-alex-cortright","tag-featured-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59579,"href":"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59576\/revisions\/59579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wtmd.org\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}