Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993.
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Friends, Associates | Ada Leverson | Her pleasure in European travel included spending time with young friends: Harold Acton
, Ronald Firbank
, the Sitwellbrothers
, and the young composer William Walton
. Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago, 1993. 256-7 Wyndham, Violet. The Sphinx and Her Circle: A Biographical Sketch of Ada Leverson 1862-1933. A. Deutsch, 1963. 87 |
Performance of text | Edith Sitwell | Façade, ES
's suite of poems written to music by the nineteen-year-old William Walton
, had its first (private) performance at 2 Carlyle Square, Chelsea. Fifoot, Richard. A Bibliography of Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell. Second Edition, Revised, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1971. 24 |
Performance of text | Edith Sitwell | The first public performance of Façade by ES
and William Walton
was given at the Aeolian Hall
, London. Sitwell, Edith. Taken Care Of: An Autobiography. Hutchinson, 1965. 122 Cevasco, George A. The Sitwells: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. Twayne, 1987. 26 |
Reception | Edith Sitwell | ES
's work has often attracted composers. Apart from her collaboration with William Walton
on Façade, Benjamin Britten
set her Illuminations to music and wrote a canticle based on Still Falls the Rain. |
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