This album, the Sphinx Virtuosi's debut on the storied Deutsche Grammophon label, is most valuable as promotion for the ensemble's parent, the Sphinx Organization, which is devoted to increasing racial diversity in classical music and turned 25 last year.
It has become common to refer to George Walker as a composer of firsts in particular, the distinction of being the first Black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. But, as he told an interviewer in 2012, I've always thought in universal terms, not just what is Black, or what is American, but simply what has quality.
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