George Walker
Songs
The songs presented on this recording are culled from works composed over a period of thirty years. The first song, Response, a setting of a poem by the first significant black American poet, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, was composed in 1941. Three of Emily Dickinson songs, Legacy, I Have No Life But This, and What If I Sat I Shall Not Wait, were commissioned by Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. The last named song concludes with a canonical treatment of a quote from the folksong, I Wonder As I Wander.