Walton’s Façade Brings Will Entertain and Delight in Early August

By David Steinberg Two 20th century British cultural giants – composer Sir William Walton and poet Dame Edith Sitwell – joined up in an unusual work called “Façade: An Entertainment.” At the premiere, in Jazz Age-London of 1923, Walton conducted “Façade” and Sitwell used a megaphone to recite the words of the poems she had … Continue reading Walton’s Façade Brings Will Entertain and Delight in Early August