Steve Lippia: Carrying Tradition of the American Songbook

Singer Steve Lippia returns to Columbus, Indiana for a concert that will include music of Indiana natives Hoagy Carmichael and Cole Porter.

Singer Steve Lippia, whose performance in “Ol’ Blue Eyes” was a sell-out, returns to Columbus, Indiana for a concert that will include music of Indiana natives Hoagy Carmichael and Cole Porter.

Lippia talked about the strengths of these composers, their contributions to the American Songbook, some of the other singers who’ve helped to support the canon, and his eager anticipation of another visit with David Bowden and the Columbus (Indiana) Philharmonic.

George Walker

George Walker was born in Winchester, Virginia, and raised in Owl’s Head, Maine, and Valhalla, New York. After graduating from the University of Michigan, he came to Bloomington in 1966 and completed an M.A.T. degree in English at Indiana University. George began announcing for WFIU in 1967. Currently, along with regularly hosting classical music shows, he interviews artists in a wide variety of areas and reviews plays and operas. He’s the proud father of grown sons Ben Walker (and his wife Elise Katzif Walker) and Aaron Walker. In his time away from WFIU, George enjoys an active life with wife Carolyn Lipson-Walker, singing, reading, exercising and playing guitar.

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