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In the Thread: Playing American Music on July 4?

Post Subject: Walker's great!Posted by clarkjohnsen on: 7/2/2009

For decades I've declared him the Greatest Living American Composer.

I was privileged to know him and visit him back in the Eighties and early Nineties. A true gentleman. His two sons followed him in classical music, one as a violinist, the other as a pianist.

George was also an audiophile!

I call his Trombone Concerto the greatest American composition of the second half of the Twentieth Century.

Of his appearance at the Boston Symphony a decade or so ago, I have a funny story but I'll save it for now.

clark

PS It was also my privilege to be a close friend of the man I declared the Greatest Living American Painter -- Henry Schwartz. Oh what the hell -- the Greatyest Living Painter period. Alas, he passed this year. But his subject matter was mostly classical music, if you can believe it!

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