Tomorrow is the 95th birthday of George Walker. This American musical treasure remains creatively productive and full of insight and deserves to be far better known.
I was incredibly fortunate to be able to spend some time interviewing him for the profile in Strings magazine’s July issue.
It’s currently available to subscribers, so I can post only a brief teaser:
When he published his memoirs in 2009, George Theophilus Walker chose the title Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist. It was at the keyboard that he first formed his musical identity, starting when he was five. Precocious musically and intellectually, Walker graduated from high school at 14 and in the yearbook announced his intention to become a concert pianist — which is precisely what he proceeded to do, in characteristic Walker fashion.
Filed under: American music, George Walker, Strings
MEMETERIA by Thomas May 