James Walker (conductor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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conductor and musician from Australia, born 1912
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Place of Birth: Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia
About James Walker (conductor)
- James Walker (9 April 1912 – 20 August 1988) was an Australian musician known both as a conductor of ballet and opera and as a recording producer supervising classical recording sessions. As a conductor Walker was musical director of the International Ballet company from 1947 to 1953 and of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company from 1968 to 1971 in succession to Isidore Godfrey.
- For D'Oyly Carte he supervised and sometimes conducted recordings from the 1950s to the 1970s. Before and after his years with D'Oyly Carte Walker was a producer for Decca Records, working with a large number of international artists including Benjamin Britten, Pierre Monteux, Renata Tebaldi, Herbert von Karajan and Vladimir Ashkenazy.
- Many of the 1950s and 1960s recordings produced by Walker have been transferred to CD and remain in the catalogues.
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