Creative power: Film documents tuba player's dramatic rise from childhood of poverty
Richard Antoine White plays music at Mobtown Studios in Baltimore. (Darren Durlach/Early Light Media) Darren Durlach and David Larson first met Richard Antoine White about nine months before starting the project on him. The co-directors – once journalists – fell for White’s story and wanted to weave it into a documentary about art education in America. White experienced poverty and homelessness on the streets of West Baltimore’s Sandtown neighborhood while living with his mother, who struggled with alcoholism. ................................................................ He was eve...