John Malveaux: For their 2012/13 season the National Symphony created a series of concerts for young people entitled 'Summon The Heroes'

George Walker has a website at http://georgetwalker.com/ and is featured at AfriClassical.com

The Kennedy Center

John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com writes:

For their 2012/13 season the National Symphony  created a series of concerts for young people entitled 'Summon The Heroes'. Youngsters from many schools in Washington, DC were bussed in to the Kennedy Center to hear these live performances. Literature was distributed to the schools with a Guide for Teachers and information about the orchestra for students. A cd of music was made for distribution. 

The cd contains music by John Williams, Beethoven, Copland, Elgar, and George Walker.

Sixteen performances of the George Walker's 'Lyric for Strings' were given in a period of two months by the National Symphony.

This was an unprecedented effort by the National Symphony to encourage youngsters to listen to and appreciate classical orchestral music. See http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/students/kc-connections/series/cuesheet/121017-ypc-heroes.aspx

John Malveaux