George Walker

Articles

Contents:

• The Audiophile Voice
• Barnes and Noble
• Fanfare Magazine
• HBCU College Algebra Reform Consortium
• Library of Congress
• Musical Quarterly
• New Music Connoisseur
• New York Times
• Philadelphia Inquirer
• Piano and Keyboard Keyboard Magazine
• Positive Feedback
• Scarecrow Press
• Star-Ledger
• Stereophile
• Yahoo Biography
• Washington Post

The Audiophile Voice:

• Interview with Dr. George Walker, Volume 2, no. 4

Barnes and Noble:

• "Walker has honed the thorny modernist techniques of his earlier work into a style of great emotional espressivity...The masterful text-setting (Lilacs) is accompanied by imaginative, evocative orchestral writing."
   

Fanfare Magazine:

• Walker (Peter Burwasser, July/August 1997)

HBCU College Algebra Reform Consortium

• Newsletter of the HBCU College Algebra Reform Consortium, Vignette- George Walker
   

Library of Congress:

• The Lot of the Black Composer by George Walker (Keynote address from 1992 Unisys African-American Composers Forum)
• Four Poems (original) by George Walker

Musical Quarterly:

• George Walker is one of the most highly regarded and successful composers of the late twentieth century. (Musical Quarterly, Fall 2000)  

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New Music Connoisseur:

• George Walker: A Conversation with Bruce Duffie

New York Times:

• A wonderful birthday tribute (May 2003)
  
• A Pulitzer Winner's Overnight Success of 60 Years (Ralph Blumenthal, April 11, 1996)
• Make Room for Black Classical Music (George Walker, November 3, 1993)
• A Career Composing Classical Music (Joseph Deitch, July 15, 1990)
• A Composer Who Backed Into the Business (Glenn Plaskin, January 10, 1982)
• A Serious Composer Talks About the Path to Success (New Jersey Section, Terri Lowen Finn, February 8, 1981)

Philadelphia Inquirer:

• Yes, he's a great composer (Leslie Valdes, October 31, 1996)

Piano and Keyboard Keyboard Magazine:

• Walker has made an important and rewarding contribution to the piano repertoire...
  music of originality without artificiality, born of his imagination and his search for
  precise expression.

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Positive Feedback:

•  A great composer who's been at his job for over fifty years.

Scarecrow Press:

• The Black Composer Speaks: Interview with George Theophilus Walker (1978)

Star-Ledger:

• Looking Past the Prize (Mark Adamo, January 19, 1997)
• Music community says Pulitzer long overdue (Michael Redmond, April 14, 1996)

Stereophile:

• The Music of George Walker (Dan Buckley, November 1997)

Washington Post:

• Hometown Hommage To a D.C. Composer (Joseph McLellan, June 8, 1997)

Yahoo Biography:

•  His acknowledged masterpiece is for solo piano, the Sonata no. 2
   

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