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Details
English Chamber Orchestra Ltd
2 Coningsby Road
Ealing
London
W5 4HR
England
Programme
William Walton – Façade
Performers
David Corkhill – Conductor
Johnny Herford – Narrator
English Chamber Orchestra
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Programme Note
Link to Concert: Facade
Brimming with jazz-soaked charm and colour, William Walton’s Façade gained immediate notoriety for its unconventionality; at its public premiere in 1922, poet Edith Sitwell recited her delightfully quirky verse with a megaphone protruding through an ornate screen, with Walton conducting the work’s six-piece ensemble hidden from view. In the audience that night sat Evelyn Waugh, Virginia Woolf and Noël Coward.
This "entertainment" comprises twenty-one miniatures in a multitude of musical styles and forms, its deft and playful pastiche leading one reviewer to say of Walton "As a musical joker, he is a jewel of the first water".
