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Don Walker (October 28, 1907 – September 12, 1989) was a prolific Broadway orchestrator, who also composed music for musicals and one film and worked as a conductor in television.
Don Walker (b. Lambertville, NJ, 28 October 1907; d. Trenton, NJ, 12 September 1989) was a prolific and ubiquitous Broadway orchestrator, also a conductor for television and composer of music for musicals and film. Walker was educated at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Sep 13, 1989 · Don Walker, a musician who did the orchestration for dozens of Broadway shows, died yesterday at Mercer Medical Center in Trenton after a long illness. He was 81 years old and lived in New...
In this event, orchestrator and conductor Larry Blank will discuss works from across Walker’s extraordinary career, including Anyone Can Whistle, Cabaret, Fiddler, and Shenandoah. Contributors include musical theatre scholar Jon Alan Conrad and legendary orchestrator Jonathan Tunick.
The orchestrator adjusts a composition “to fit…whatever orchestral combination has been selected,” Broadway orchestrator Don Walker writes in his autobiography. In the 1940s, Webster’s Dictionary came out with a second meaning for orchestrate: “to arrange or combine so as to achieve a maximum effect.”
Don Walker was a prolific Broadway orchestrator, who also composed music for musicals and one film and worked as a conductor in television.
In 1952, legendary composer/lyricist, Frank Loesser, and celebrated orchestrator, Don Walker, transformed a fledgling business into what is now known throughout the world as Music Theatre International (MTI).
