WALKER, GEORGE THEOPHILUS

WALKER, GEORGE THEOPHILUS. Composer/College professor (27 June 1922 in Washington, D.C.). He came from a musical family; his father was an amateur pianist, and his sister, Frances Walker Slocum , became a concert pianist. He began piano study at the age of five. He obtained his musical education in the public schools of Washington, D.C.; in the junior division of the Howard University School of Music in Washington; at the Oberlin [Ohio] Conservatory (B. Mus., 1941); at the Curtis...