![]() There, Walton and Edith Sitwell together devised the words-and-music ‘entertainment’ that would become Façade. Failed (non-musical) examinations in 1920 meant that Walton’s scholarship was not renewed, so the Sitwells took him to live in Osbert’s London home in Carlyle Square. A fellow-undergraduate was Sacheverell Sitwell, who introduced his gifted writer-siblings, Osbert and Edith, to the remarkable young musician. When did William Walton meet the Sitwells?Īt 16, Walton entered Christ Church College itself. ![]() The lad from Oldham turned out to be a musical prodigy: his choral anthem Drop, drop, slow tears, written in its first version in 1916, has been described by his biographer Michael Kennedy as ‘a genuine Walton experience’. He was born in 1902 in the Lancashire town of Oldham – the son of a music teacher who, when young Willie was 10, spotted a newspaper advertisement for probationer choristers at Oxford’s Christ Church Cathedral Choir. ![]()
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