Don Walker (orchestrator)
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This article is about the Australian musician. For other people with the same name, see Don Walker (disambiguation).
Don Walker (1907-1989) was a famous Broadway orchestrator, who also composed music for one film. Among the scores that he orchestrated were those for Carousel, Finian's Rainbow, Call Me Madam, The Pajama Game, The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, and Cabaret. He did not orchestrate the film versions of these shows. His orchestrations for Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella, which has never been filmed, were heard in the 1980 production of the play telecast on Great Performances.
Walker also orchestrated the early television variety program The Admiral Broadway Revue.
The only film score that he composed was the music for the motion picture A Thousand Clowns, starring Jason Robards.
