William Walton. Behind The Facade

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 1988
Edition: Reprint

Description: 255 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The acclaimed English composer William Walton-- enfant terrible of English music in the 1920s and 30s, composer of Façade , Belshazzars Feast , and a host of other brilliant works--lived a long and accomplished life. Admitted as a nine-year-old Lancashire schoolboy to Christ Church Choir Schoolin Oxford, he was discovered by Sacheverell Sitwell as an undergraduate at Christ Church, adopted by all three Sitwells, and early on discovered a publisher willing to back his unconventional music. He was, along with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten, one of the giants of 20th-centuryBritish music.In this moving memoir, Susana Walton has created an intimate and revealing portrait of this great English composer, recounting his entire career and their thirty-five years of marriage. The book brims with colorful anecdotes of some of the people who played a part in Waltons life, including theSitwells, Laurence Olivier (for whose three Shakespeare movies Walton composed the score), Benjamin Britten, Maria Callas, Lord Kenneth Clark, W.H. Auden, Yehudi Menuhin, and Julian Bream. Packed with numerous photographs, many of which have never before been published, this charming volume offersmany insights into Walton, the composer and the man.

ISBN: 9780193151567