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Walker (Shirley) music scores
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Description
This collection consists of music scores from American film and television composer Shirley Walker.
Background
Shirley Walker (1945-2006) was an American film and television composer and conductor and was a pioneer for women in the film industry. Walker was a piano soloist with the San Francisco Symphony while in high school and went on to attend San Francisco State University on a piano scholarship. She studied composition with Roger Nixon and piano studies with Harold Logan. Walker began her career composing industrial films and commercial jingles then broke into the film business by playing synthesizer on Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979).
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86.6 Linear Feet 49 boxes
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Finding aid description and metadata are licensed under an Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.
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