That legacy is at the heart of “Green Book,” the widely lauded ... was for their unborn son to play piano, to the extent that they played piano music consistently while he was still in his ...

Sponsor Message Before Green Book, Bowers says he had never ... There was no sheet music. But Bowers was no slouch at the piano — he trained at the Juilliard School — so he could transcribe ...

That means Kris Bowers, composer for “Green Book,” a biopic ... how to play the piano. I spent three months with him. Usually the composer is just worrying about the music.

If the film Green Book leaves ... way that I play the piano, but I have really bad posture habits,” he chuckled. “So there were times when I would run through a song for him and he’d come ...

(The “Green Book” of the title refers to “The ... he would exclaim during the song’s florid introduction. When the song’s gospel piano rhythm started, he would do a little uncle dance.

But the real musicianship comes from Kris Bowers, the extraordinary 29-year-old American composer who wrote the film score for Green Book and ... writing the music for the Netflix series Dear White ...