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Looking at this year’s list of Oscar nominees, I was drawn to the name of a live short nominee, “A Concerto is a Conversation,” because it was about the premiere of Kris Bowers’ violin concerto. Intrigued, I decided to watch the movie. Although this short didn’t win the Oscar, it’s still not to be missed.
From the title, I expected the film to be about Bowers, who, at 29, wrote the score for
The Green Book. The LA Philharmonic’s premiere of Bower’s violin concerto “For A Younger Self” is the catalyst for the movie. But the movie is set up like a conversation between Kris Bowers and his 91-year-old grandfather, Horace Bowers, Sr., whom Kris Bowers says was “instrumental” in his success.
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The Oscar isn’t the only one celebrating its 93rd trip around the sun at the Academy Awards ceremony this year. The shorts category features two documentaries, “A Concerto is a Conversation” and “Colette,” about fellow nonagenarians who have led extraordinary and extraordinarily different lives. One, Horace Bowers, is a 93-year-old Black man born in the Jim Crow South who became a successful business owner in California and the grandfather of a prominent composer. The other, Colette Marin- Catherine, is a French woman who was part of the resistance during World War II. She turns 93 on April 25, the day of the ceremony.
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Horace Bowers, 93, owner of Bowers & Sons Cleaners in Los Angeles and a subject of the Oscar-nominated documentary short film A Concerto is a Conversation, poses for a portrait outside Walt Disney Concert Hall, Thursday, April 15, 2021, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello) April 16, 2021 - 9:36 AM
The Oscar isnât the only one celebrating its 93rd trip around the sun at the Academy Awards ceremony this year. The shorts category features two documentaries, â A Concerto is a Conversation â and â Colette,â about fellow nonagenarians who have led extraordinary and extraordinarily different lives.
One, Horace Bowers, is a 93-year-old Black man born in the Jim Crow South who became a successful business owner in California and the grandfather of a prominent composer. The other, Colette Marin-Catherine, is a French woman who was part of the resistance during World War II. She turns 93 on April 25, the day of the ce