{"product_id":"william-walton-behind-the-faade","title":"William Walton: Behind the Façade","description":"The acclaimed English composer William Walton--enfant terrible of English music in the 1920s and 30s  composer of Faade  Belshazzars Feast  and a host of other brilliant works--lived a long and accomplished life. Admitted as a nine-year-old Lancashire schoolboy to Christ Church Choir School in Oxford  he was discovered by Sacheverell Sitwell as an undergraduate at Christ Church  adopted by all three Sitwells  and early on discovered a publisher willing to back his unconventional music. He was  along with Ralph Vaughan Williams and Benjamin Britten  one of the giants of 20th-century British music. In this moving memoir  Susana Walton has created an intimate and revealing portrait of this great English composer  recounting his entire career and their thirty-five years of marriage. The book brims with colorful anecdotes of some of the people who played a part in Waltons life  including the Sitwells  Laurence Olivier (for whose three Shakespeare movies Walton composed the score)  Benjamin Britten  Maria Callas  Lord Kenneth Clark  W.H. Auden  Yehudi Menuhin  and Julian Bream. Packed with numerous photographs  many of which have never before been published  this charming volume offers many insights into Walton  the composer and the man.","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44847048687669,"sku":"ByrdShop_0193151561","price":59.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0193151561_0751c319-d405-49fc-9836-fe00f377843f.jpg?v=1772675217","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/william-walton-behind-the-faade","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}