George Walker

George Theophilus Walker (June 27, 1922 – August 23, 2018) na he be an American composer, pianist, den organist, den de first African American to win de Pulitzer Prize for Music, wich na he receive for ein work Lilacs insyd 1996. Na Walker marry to pianist den scholar Helen Walker-Hill between 1960 den 1975. Na Walker be de poppie of two sons, violinist den composer Gregory T.S. Walker den playwright Ian Walker.Walker, George (2009), Reminiscences of an American Composer and Pianist, Scarecrow Press, , p. 153.

 Major compositions 
Walker ein oeuvre dey include de work wey dey follow:

 A Red, Red Rose for Voice and Piano
 Abu for Narrator and Chamber Ensembles (Network for New Music commission)
 Address for Orchestra
 An Eastman Overture (Eastman School of Music commission)
 Antifonys for Chamber Orchestra
 Bleu for Unaccompanied Violin
 Cantata for Soprano, Tenor, Boys Choir, and Chamber Orchestra (Boys Choir of Harlem commission)
 Canvas for Wind Ensemble and Narrator (College Band Directors National Association commission)
 Cello Concerto (New York Philharmonic commission)
 Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (National Endowment for the Arts Commission)
 Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra (1957)
 Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
 Da Camera (Musica Reginae commission)
 Dialogus for Cello and Orchestra (Cleveland Orchestra commission)
 Emily Dickinson Songs
 Five Fancies for Clarinet and Piano Four Hands (David Ensemble commission)
 Foils for Orchestra (Hommage a Saint George) (Eastman School of Music commission)
 Folk Songs for Orchestra
 Guido's Hand (Xerox commission)
 Hommage to Saint George (Eastman School of Music commission)
 Hoopla: A Touch of Glee
 Icarus In Orbit
 In Praise of Folly
 Lilacs for Voice and Orchestra
 Lyric for Strings
 Mass for Soloists, Chorus, and Orchestra (National Endowment for the Arts commission)
 Modus (Cygnus Ensemble commission)
 Movements for Cello and Orchestra
 Music for 3
 Music for Brass (Sacred and Profane)
 Music for Two Pianos
 Nine Songs for Voice and Piano
 Orpheus for Narrator and Chamber Orchestra
 Overture: In Praise of Folly
 Pageant and Proclamation (New Jersey Symphony commission)
 Perimeters for Clarinet and Piano
 Piano Sonata No. 1
 Piano Sonata No. 2
 Piano Sonata No. 3
 Piano Sonata No. 4
 Piano Sonata No. 5
 Poem for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble (National Endowment for the Arts commission)
 Poeme for Violin and Orchestra (Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra premiere)
 Psalms for Chorus
 Serenata for Chamber Orchestra (Michigan Chamber Orchestra commission)
 Sinfonia No. 1 (Fromm Foundation commission)
 Sinfonia No. 2 (Koussevitsky commission)
 Sinfonia No. 3
 Sinfonia No. 4
 Sinfonia No. 5 "Visions" (two versions, one with voices and one without)
 Sonata for Cello and Piano
 Sonata for Two Pianos
 Sonata for Viola and Piano
 Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 1
 Spatials for Piano
 Spektra for Piano
 Spires for Organ
 String Quartet No. 1
 String Quartet No. 2
 Tangents for Chamber Orchestra (Columbus Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra commission)
 Three Pieces for Organ
 Two Pieces for Organ
 Variations for Orchestra
 Violin and Piano Sonata No. 2
 Windset for Woodwind Quintet

 References 

External links
 George Walker official website Archived March 5, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
 A 2017 Conversation with George Walker (includes video excerpts)
George Walker interview by Bruce Duffie
2012 George Walker interview by Ethan Iverson 
George Theophilus Walker, African American Composer & Pianist at AfriClassical.com
George Walker, Composer Archived February 4, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Documentary produced by NJTV
George Walker Collection at the Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library
'Ep. 35: Legendary Pulitzer Prize winning American composer George Walker' Interview by Tigran Arakelyan

Category:1922 births
Category:2018 deaths
Category:Human
Category:20th-century American male musicians
Category:20th-century American classical composers
Category:African-American male classical composers
Category:American male classical composers
Category:Curtis Institute of Music alumni
Category:Eastman School of Music alumni
Category:Members of de American Academy of Arts and Letters
Category:Oberlin College alumni
Category:Pulitzer Prize for Music winners
Category:Pupils of Rosario Scalero
Category:Albany Records artists
Category:20th-century African-American musicians
Category:21st-century African-American people
Category:Musicians wey komot Washington, D.C.