Chris Walton ❌👑

@philocrites.bsky.social

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Preoccupied with music, culture, religion, and liberal democracy. Practicing composition in Greater Boston.

Bar TV over a doorway next to beer taps shows Gov. Maura Healey speaking after receiving the decorated No Scotland No Party traffic cone.
Photo shows tightly packed wooden handcarts with large wood-spoked wheels, the yokes tilted upward at 45 degrees, on a flatbed trailer.
Screen shot of a New York Times article byline: “By Danny Hakim / This is Danny Hakim’s first story on flying potatoes.”
Singers take a bow on a theater stage in front of a large tree
Graphic with a nearly abstract photograph of hazy blue mountains in three dark wavy stripes in the bottom two-thirds of the image and an orange and slate-gray sky at sunset at the top, with bold lettering in the middle: "Scenic Sounds."
Screenshot of Tufts University Department of Music events listings: Apr 6, 12pm Granoff Music Center Colloquium: “A Vision for the Humanities at the Boston Symphony” - Chad Smith (Boston Symphony Orchestra) Apr 6, 8pm Tishler Competition Finals Apr 7, 12pm The Mahler Sessions: Andris Nelsons (Music Director, Boston Symphony Orchestra)
Rev. Jesse Jackson and other civil rights leaders prepare for the commemorative march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on March 8, 2015. (© Christopher L. Walton)
Rev. Jesse Jackson greets people outside Brown Chapel in Selma, Alabama, on March 8, 2015, before the start of a service commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights March from Selma to Montgomery. (Photo © Christopher L. Walton)
Boston’s Symphony Hall at night, with interior lights, street lights, and car lights shining through falling snow
Event graphic: "Benefit Concert" in cursive letters and an illustration of a trumpet on a green background, with a "Tufts Youth Philharmonic" logo and white text: "A concert benefiting the students of the Tufts Youth Philharmonic"
Detail of ice patterns on a window, with a blue tinted region at top and a yellow tinted region below
Standing at one edge of the Jordan Hall stage, composer Carlos Simon introduces his new work, “Gardner Suite,” as the musicians wait to begin playing. The string quintet faces the four woodwind players.
Large poster with black text on white: "The comments, views, and opinions expressed in this program are solely those of the speaker(s) and do not reflect or represent the views of the college. The location of the event should not be considered as, and does not imply, an endorsement of the viewpoints presented by our guests or clients. The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College."
Curtain call at the January 11 performance of “Hildegard,” from left to right: supernumerary Sam Kann; Paul Cher MinChul (Otto); Raha Mirzadegan (Gerta / Angel 1); Blythe Gaissert (Clementina / Margravine von Stade / Angel 2); David Adam Moore (Abbot Cuno); Nola Richardson (Hildegard von Bingen); Mikaela Bennett (Richardis von Stade); Roy Hage (Volmar); Chloë Engel (dancer “Faceless Woman”); composer and librettist Sarah Kirkland Snider (in front); Patrick Bessenbacher (Mechtild; behind Snider); supernumerary Maia Sauer; music director Gabriel Crouch.
Photo of a stack of books: “Orbital,” Susan Harvey; “Union: The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood,” Colin Woodard; “Sound Tracks: A Musical Detective Story,” Graeme Lawson; “Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry,” Dana Gioia; “St. Matthew Passion,” Gjertrud Schnackenberg; “Beethoven: A Life in Nine Pieces,” Laura Tunbridge; “The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865,” Mark Peterson; “Between Two Sounds: Arvo Pärt’s Journey to His Musical Language,” Joonas Sildre; “Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven,” John Eliot Gardner; “Every Valley: The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel’s ‘Messiah’,” Charles King
Photo of the cover of the Criterion Collection edition of “Wings of Desire: A Film by Wim Wenders,” which shows a man looking down, wearing a long dark coat, standing on a stone slab surrounded by clouds. Faint angel wings are visible behind him.
Photo: A snowman stands in front of a brick wall in a small yard where almost all the snow has been rolled up into the three balls of the snowman. The large ball on the bottom is coated with dead leaves. The middle ball is wrapped in a scarf made of green doggie poop bags. Three pieces of sidewalk chalk (I think) serve as eyes and nose. A tangled wig sits on top. Two dried plant stems rise out of the sides as arms.
Photo shows a small wooden literature rack attached to a pillar holding two volumes with gilded lettering, a blue hardcover edition of “The Constitution of the United States of America” and a green hardcover edition of “The Bill of Rights.”
Concert program: Menotomy Concert Series Presents Kalliope Reed Quintet Música de México y Memorias Anna Bradford, oboe Céline Ferro, clarinet Bennett Parsons, saxophone Bill Kirkly, bass clarinet Natalie Zemba, bassoon Friday, October 24, 2025, 7:30pm Arlington Town Hall
As one woman speaks at the podium, two others stand to the side dressed in historical outfits and holding tasseled banners: a purple banner fringed with gold says “Lexington” in large letters near the date 1887, with the phrase “Something Must Be Done” below; the phrase is a quote from a Lexington woman who gathered other women to push for women’s rights in the early 19th century. The second banner says “Protest is patriotic.”
A man and a woman stand behind a podium with a “No King! No Tyranny!” sign in front of a large crowd. The woman is speaking into a microphone.
In the crowd of protesters carrying signs is a man dressed in 18th century clothing wearing a bloody bandage on his forehead under a three-cornered hat
Two vertical hand made signs on white posterboard: with red flowers and green leaves, “Democracy Needs Your [Voice]” and “Prison Without Due Process Is A Concentration Camp,” with letters decorated with barbed wire
A large crowd carrying signs and American flags gathered around an obelisk; a tall white steepled church stands in the background.
Black and white photo of two child-sized Halloween skeleton decorations arranged on playground equipment in a suburban yard: one sits on a swing, one dangles from monkey bars.
Icon of Mary Magdalene
Photo: spectacular red clouds at sunset behind a Union memorial
Photo: Large bronze and stone sculpture of a Black woman holding a large open birdcage in her lap; one freed bird stands on top of the cage, while two others stand on the statue's pedestal near her feet. The ornate facade of the Omni Parker House Hotel in visible in the background.
Photo of Chris Walton standing outside the music building at Tufts University in the late afternoon
Photo: A person wearing a dark shirt, dark shorts, and light hat stands with a fishing pole on top of a rocky outcropping approximately twice his height. At the far edge of the image, a wave is cresting.
Photo: Dragonfly perched on white nylon webbing
Photo: guy with red beard and glasses sits outdoors at an electric keyboard with sheet music next to sun-dappled trees by a river
Photo shows the face of a ginger cat between two flaps of a cardboard box
Photo of a bee on the orange cone of a flower with purple petals