WRITER OF MORE THAN 70 WORKS Recognition blooms at last for black composer George Walker's Whitmanesque `Lilacs' wins a Pulitzer Prize

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | April 16, 1996| | Copyright

A rash of crank calls had been interrupting George Walker at his music since last year, so when the telephone rang April 9 as the 73-year-old composer labored over an organ piece, he snatched it up expecting to hear the maddeningly familiar click of a hangup. Instead, a friendly voice informed him that he had just won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for music.

It was a triumphant moment for the lanky and laconic Walker, a not-quite-overnight sensation more than 60 years in the making and the first black composer to win a Pulitzer music prize in the 80 years of awards.

Indeed, he suggested as ...

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