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Façade Entertainments
Conductor's score and parts on hire
978-0-19-359449-4
31 August 2000
Price: Available on request
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for narrator and ensemble with additional movements Forces or CategoryNarrator & ensembleDuration50 minutesDifficultyDifficultOrchestrationnarrator, fl (+picc), cl (+bcl), asx, tpt in C, perc, vc (1-2 players)
Percussion: SD, cym, tri, Chinese blk, cas, tamb, jingles)Programme
NotesFirst public performance - Aeolian Hall, London, 12 June 1923, Edith Sitwell (reciter), Robert Murchie (flute & piccolo), Paul Draper (carlinet & bass clarinet), F Moss (alto saxophone), Herbert Barr (trumpet), Charles Bender (percussion), Ambrose Gauntlett (cello), conductor William Walton
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William Walton (1902-1983)
Edited by David Lloyd-Jones Sir William Walton was born in Oldham, Lancashire in 1902, the son of a choirmaster and a singing-teacher. He became a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and then an undergraduate at the University. His first composition to attract attention was a piano quartet written at the age of sixteen. At Oxford he made the acquaintance of the Sitwells who gave him friendship, moral and financial support and in 1922 he collaborated with Edith in devising the entertainment Façade. Less than ten years later, Osbert prepared the text of another masterwork, Belshazzar's Feast. From 1922
to 1927 Walton began to spend an increasing amount of time abroad, notably in Switzerland and Italy. The war years were devoted mainly to writing film and ballet scores and he became established as amongst the greatest composers for the screen.
David Lloyd-Jones was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and made his professional conducting debut in 1961 with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He worked briefly as a répétiteur at the Royal Opera House before joining the New Opera Company, where he worked from 1961 to 1964. In 1972 he was appointed Assistant Music Director at Sadlers Wells Opera (now English National Opera), where he conducted a wide repertory which included the first British staging of War and Peace by Sergei Prokofiev. Lloyd-Jones became the
first Music Director of Opera North in 1977, where he conducted over fifty productions. He stepped down from the position of Music Director in 1990.More information at the William Walton website
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"Even Mr W T Walton, whose string quartet, a couple of years ago, convinced me that he was boldest of the bold amongst the youngest of the young, would, I believe, hesitate at setting a Sitwell opera, but he has actually gone so far as to set twenty-eight Sitwell lyrics or rather to write music simultaneous performance. It this was kindly meant to distract our minds, let me say that regretfully it failed." - The Observer, 17 June 1923
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Facade: An Entertainment
Fanfare
Hornpipe
En Famille
Mariner Man
Long Steel Grass
Through Gilded Trellises
Tango - Pasodoble
Lullaby for Jumbo
Black Mrs. Behmoth
Tarantella
The Man from a Far Countree
By the Lake
County Dance
Polka
Four in the Morning
Something Lies beyond the Scene
Valse
Jodelling Song
Scotch Rhapsody
Popular Song
Fox-trot
Sir Beelzebub
Facade 2: A Further Entertainment
Flourish - Came the Great Popinjay
Aubade
March
Madame Mouse Trots
Gardener Janus Catches a Naiad
Water Party
Said King Pompey
Four Additional Numbers
Small Talk
Daphne
The White Owl
The Last Galop
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