Duration: 7 minutes

Description: George Walker’s “Lyric for Strings” is a meditation on love, loss, and remembrance. This deeply moving work by the Pulitzer Prize–winning American composer unfolds with quiet dignity, growing from intimate reflection into an impassioned outpouring before returning to stillness and serene resignation. Timeless and profoundly personal, “Lyric for Strings” invites listeners into a shared moment of beauty, tenderness, and hope. This adaptation of the composer’s celebrated work was written especially for youth orchestras by George Walker’s son, Gregory T.S. Walker.

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