William Walton

Standard Name: Walton, William

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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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.
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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.
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Cevasco, George A. The Sitwells: Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. Twayne, 1987.
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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.

Timeline

8 December 1936: The BBC for the first time televised a full-length...

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8 December 1936

The BBC for the first time televised a full-length ballet: William Walton 's Façade (derived from Edith Sitwell ) with Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann .
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
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12 May 1937: Composer William Walton's march Crown Imperial...

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12 May 1937

Composer William Walton 's march Crown Imperial was performed for King George VI 's coronation.
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
383

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