In March of 2021, a quartet of Minnesota Orchestra musicians performed the glorious and lamenting second movement from George Walker's String Quartet No. 1 at Orchestra Hall in a livestream with no audience present due to pandemic restrictions. This movement, Molto adagio, became the basis of Walker's most famous work, dedicated to his grandmother: Lyric for Strings. It will now resound in the same space with a full complement of strings onstage under the baton of Nathalie Stutzmann this weekend
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Black History Month continues with the first movement from celebrated composer George Walker's String Quartet No. 1. Walker was the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, in 1996. | The Philadelphia Orchestra
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