The ballet Pas de Deux contains his miniature for strings and wind, Siesta, and though he arranged a suite of Bach works for The Wise Virgin, his only original ballet was The Quest.
The ballet Pas de Deux contains his miniature for strings and wind, Siesta, and though he arranged a suite of Bach works for The Wise Virgin, his only original ballet was The Quest. His two part concert piece, the Spitfire Prelude and Fugue, came from The First of the Few, one of numerous films he scored. A close relationship with Edith Sitwell led to his two Façade suites, and he also had success with the overtures Scapino and Portsmouth Point, a viola concerto, his Symphony No. 1 in B Flat Minor, and the coronation marches Orb and Scepter and Crown Imperial, written for Elizabeth II and George VI, respectively. FTP, name this 20th Century British composer of an oratorio set from the book of Daniel, Belshazzar's Feast.
The ballet Pas de Deux contains his miniature for strings and wind, Siesta, and though he arranged a suite of Bach works for The Wise Virgin, his only original ballet was The Quest.
William {Walton}