Façade: An Entertainment

Album by William Walton & Fenella Fielding & Michael Flanders & Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Neville Marriner

Façade: An Entertainment is a stage entertainment by English composer William Walton, first presented publicly in 1923. The work pairs rhythmic, jazzy chamber-ensemble writing with spoken-word verse, featuring syncopated rhythms, colourful orchestration and modernist harmonic touches, and it marked Walton's early emergence within British musical modernism.

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    Façade: An Entertainment: (Fanfare)
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Hornpipe
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    Façade: An Entertainment: En Famille
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Mariner Man
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Long Steel Grass
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Through Gilded Trellises
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Tango-Pasodoble
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Lullaby for Jumbo
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Black Mrs. Behemoth
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Tarantella
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    Façade: An Entertainment: A Man From a Far Countree
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    Façade: An Entertainment: By the Lake
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Country Dance
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Polka
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Four in the Morning
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Something Lies Beyond the Scene
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Valse
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Jodelling Song
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Scotch Rhapsody
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Popular Song
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Fox-Trot "Old Sir Faulk"
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    Façade: An Entertainment: Sir Beelzebub

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