Perhaps apart from Aja Gabel’s “The Ensemble,” there isn’t much contemporary fiction set in the world of classical music. Gregory Walker’s (nom de plume GT Walker) “The Curse of the Maestro” fills an overlooked space in literature and even popular culture. When was the last time a sitcom was set in an orchestra, after all?
A satirical take on a world that, although generally heralded, remains an enigma to many, Walker’s book is a collection of epistolary-proximal stories of the fictional Stonhaven Symphony Orchestra. Told from the viewpoint of its insiders, the equally sad and hilarious tales bring the musicians and those who support them way down to earth — almost beneath it, actually.
Walker might be uniquely positioned to tell such a tale. A composer, violinist, guitarist, and music academic, he is also the son of music historian Helen Walker Hill and George Walker, the first African American to receive a Pulitzer Prize in Music; he will perform some of his…
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