#william walton

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Martha Gellhorn, from a letter to William Walton featured in The Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

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Giardini La Mortella, Ischia, Italy,

Photography by Manfredi Gioacchini

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Possibly my favourite violin concerto.....

William Walton (1902-1983) - Violin Concerto

I. Andante tranquillo. II. Presto capriccioso alla napolitana. III. Vivace

Alexander Kagan, Violin

Edward Gardner Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra

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johannesburg festival overture by william walton. yes.

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Olivia Findlay and Gary Avis

Olivia Findlay and Gary Avis, “Façade – Tango-Pasodoble”, choreo by Sir Frederick Ashton, music by  William Walton. As part of the program “A Celebration of the works of Frederick Ashton” within the framework of the 2025 Nervi International Ballet Festival, Parchi di Nervi, Villa Grimaldi Fassio, Genoa, Liguria, Italy (July 12, 2025).

Note I: Each summer, the gardens of Villa Grimaldi Fassio are transformed into a temporary open-air theatre, where performances take place on a pop-up stage set against the backdrop of the sea.

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Three photographs by Cecil Beaton, 1927. Middle photo, L-R: Rex Whistler, Cecil Beaton, Georgia Sitwell, William Walton, Stephen Tennant, Zita Jungman, and Teresa ‘Baby’ Jungman.

The most memorable of all is a group portrait taken at Wilsford in the summer of 1927. Here, got up in the style of a Watteau fête champêtre, sit seven of the most dandified exquisites ever placed before a camera. [...] It is an extraordinary portrait — stylized, sophisticated, ultramodern, and yet, in its dandy posturing, hugely frivolous and self-centered, an image that, in the end, conveys nothing except it's own artificiality. By chance, Lytton Strachey arrived at Wilsford while the pictures were being taken. “Strange creatures,” he is supposed to have remarked, “with just a few feathers were brains should be.”

— D. J. Taylor, Bright Young People

Cecil and the Bright Young Things had come of age in the aftermath of the First World War, a stain they took great pains to expunge from their immediate landscape. Did they feel survivors' guilt? [...] They felt perhaps that their contributions to a Brave New World should be an excess of superficiality and inward-looking self-absorption, a world of illusion, with which to dispel an inexplicable past. The heroes were gone, and the survivors could do nothing but fail to measure up. So on they went.

— Robin Muir, Cecil Beaton's Bright Young Things

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Edith SITWELL [William WALTON]

"Façade"

(LP. Argo. 1972) [GB]

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Hi everyone!

Back in April, I was talking about my undergraduate senior recital and encouraging people to watch the live stream. While the livestream sadly had some technical difficulties, I was provided with a wonderful video of almost the entire recital afterwards.

If you were unable to watch the livestream but are still interested in watching the performance, please do go and listen! (It is about an hour though, so make sure you have time, haha!)