Program for George Walker concert: Museum Object and Cultural History
Program for George Walker concert: Date: 1960 (printed); March 3, 1960 (date of event). Printed by: The Superior Printing Company, American. Subject of: George Theophilus Walker, American, 1922 - 2018.
The object in the museum catalogue
Red, white, and black, double-sided, program for a George Walker concert. The top front of the program has a red background with white type that reads: GEORGE / WALKER / PIANIST]. The center front of the program has a black and white photograph of George Walker wearing a suite and bowtie. The bottom front of the program has a red background with black type that reads: [Photo by Seymour Bernstein / Town Hall / THURSDAY EVENING at 8:30 / MARCH 3, 1960 / (Program overleaf)]. The back of program has black type set against a white background and features a short biography, quotes from critics, and the details of the performance.
Materials, dates and provenance
- Date: 1960 (printed); March 3, 1960 (date of event)
- Printed by: The Superior Printing Company, American
- Subject of: George Theophilus Walker, American, 1922 - 2018
- Owned by: Hall Johnson, American, 1888 - 1970
- Type: programs
- Medium: ink on paper
- Dimensions: H x W: 10 5/16 × 6 9/16 in. (26.2 × 16.7 cm)
- Place depicted: New York City, New York, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Place printed: New York, United States, North and Central America
- Topic: African American
- Topic: Classical (Music)
- Topic: Composers (Musicians)
- Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
- Object number: TA2013.166.1.3
- Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dr. Eugene Thamon Simpson, Representative, Hall Johnson Estate
- Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture
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