George Walker (b. 1922)
has a website at http://georgetwalker.com/
and is featured at
AfriClassical.com
Posted June 8, 2015
Two Sunday nights ago, the Mannes Beethoven
Institute
presented a concert of Beethoven and
George Walker. Beethoven, you’re
familiar with.
Walker? He is an American composer born in
1922. He now
lives in Montclair, N.J. Later this
month, he will have his ninety-third
birthday. He
is currently working on an orchestra piece. He
was unable
to make the Mannes concert.
Thomas Sauer, a pianist who directs the
Beethoven Institute,
introduced the evening with
a few remarks. He recalled his old teacher,
the
Cuban-American pianist Jorge Bolet. Bolet was
“a man of few words,”
said Sauer. When it came
to contemporary music, he was “a man of even
fewer words.” But he recommended to his student,
Sauer, that he look
into the music of George
Walker.
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