Johannesburg Festival Overture is a composition for orchestra by the English composer William Walton, commissioned to mark the seventieth anniversary of...

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exhilarating profusion." Walton's post-war works in this genre are the Johannesburg Festival Overture (1956), the "diverting but hard-edged Capriccio burlesco" (1968)...

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scandale at its premiere. His exuberant and harmonically edgy concert overture Portsmouth Point (1926) maintained his reputation as an enfant terrible...

performed at the Leeds Festival on 8 October 1931, with the baritone Dennis Noble, the London Symphony Orchestra and the Leeds Festival Chorus, conducted by...

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into a four-movement suite for orchestra with chorus. It consists of: Overture Passacaglia ("Death of Falstaff") "Touch Her Soft Lips and Part" Agincourt...

Air in three world premièees at Carnegie Hall: Charles Ives's Browning Overture, Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 3, and Kurt Leimer's Piano Concerto No....

V Suite Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten Johannesburg Festival Overture Orb and Sceptre Partita for Orchestra Portsmouth Point Prelude...

performance was by the LSO conducted by Sir John Barbirolli at the Royal Festival Hall five days later. Walton conducted the first American performance of...

Sitwell). His other major works of the 1920s and early 1930s, including the overture Portsmouth Point (1926), the Viola Concerto and the cantata, Belshazzar's...

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its first field show that year in August 1968, at the Anaheim Kingsmen's Festival of Music. Santa Clara Vanguard capped off its year by winning the first...

range of earlier composers in his score, from Rossini (the William Tell overture appears in the Swiss Jodelling Song) to George Grossmith (whose comic song...

music for the Johannesburg Festival starting in 1956, for which he commissioned William Walton to create the Johannesburg Festival Overture in honor of...

published in 1928. The overture was selected for performance at the 1926 International Society for Contemporary Music festival, and received its first...

with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sir Malcolm Sargent at the Royal Festival Hall. The work was first recorded shortly after the premiere, with the...

mark its fiftieth anniversary; his contribution was the Scapino comedy overture. Towards the end of 1955 the Cleveland Orchestra invited him, and nine...

and Natalie Koussevitzky". He began composing in 1965 when the Aldeburgh Festival in England requested an opera from him. The Bear was first performed at...

(Capriccio burlesco, Crown Imperial, Hamlet Funeral March, Johannesburg Festival Overture, Orb and Sceptre, Richard III Prelude and Suite, Scapino, Spitfire...

3 Ralph Vaughan Williams – Symphony No. 8 William Walton – Johannesburg Festival Overture William Alwyn – Farewell Companions (for radio) Thea Musgrave...

The Australian premiere was in March 1964, a highlight of the Adelaide Festival, with Richard Lewis and Marie Collier and the South Australian Symphony...

January 1970. Its European premiere was at Benjamin Britten's Aldeburgh Festival in June of that year. The work has subsequently been recorded for commercial...

large orchestra by William Walton, described by the composer as a "comedy overture". It was commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and was first performed...

V Suite Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten Johannesburg Festival Overture Orb and Sceptre Partita for Orchestra Portsmouth Point Prelude...

V Suite Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten Johannesburg Festival Overture Orb and Sceptre Partita for Orchestra Portsmouth Point Prelude...

V Suite Improvisations on an Impromptu of Benjamin Britten Johannesburg Festival Overture Orb and Sceptre Partita for Orchestra Portsmouth Point Prelude...

finished too late for the anniversary it could be premiered at the Edinburgh Festival, provided the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra played it there. The...

1962 by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Gerald Moore, during the City of London Festival. The orchestral version was first performed at the Mansion House, London...