Gregory Walker, concertmaster with the Boulder Philharmonic, will be guest soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, performing a new violin concerto composed by his father, George Walker. The elder Walker, 87, was the first African-American to win the Pulitzer Prize for music.
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