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| Alabama, 2014 |
Ben Proudfoot offers a short film for New York Times
Op-Docs, at Sundance 2021, “A Concerto Is a Conversation” (14 min). There was a special occasion with QA in Los Angeles on Feb 24 (which I missed).
The film is motivated by the world premiere (at the
Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles) of a Violin Concerto by 29-year-old
black composer Kris Bowers. Most of the
film he interviews his grandfather Horace, who left Alabama during the Jim Crow
era and set up a clothing business in Los Angeles, using the mail for communication
to stay out of sight.
The film has many black-and-white clips of life in the segregated South.
Bowers composed the music score for the film "Green Book".
I will listen to the concerto soon and discuss it on
my music blog.
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