morning serenade , which returns at midpoint and , faster still , to conclude the piece . Between the Alborada ’ s appearances comes a slow , songful interlude reveling in the orchestra ’ s richest colors led by the horns . The fourth-place “ Canto gitano ” or “ Gypsy Song ” is introduced by a brass fanfare ; under its impassioned melody , the whole orchestra vibrates like a giant guitar . This flows directly into the final “ Fandango ,” a blazing gypsy dance with castanets and drums .
Instrumentation : Two flutes , piccolo , two oboes including English horn , two clarinets , two bassoons , four horns , two trumpets , three trombones , tuba , timpani , percussion , harp , strings .
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Sir William Walton
Born in Oldham , Lancashire , England , March 29 , 1902 ; died in Ischia , Italy , March 8 , 1983
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Born of humble origins in the dead-end cotton mill town of Oldham , Lancashire , William Walton , a fine child singer , escaped a life of factory drudgery via a scholarship to Oxford ’ s Christ Church Cathedral School , and went on to undergraduate studies at the University . Adopted by the wealthy , bohemian Sitwell family , he achieved notoriety as one of England ’ s rising young musical talents at age 20 with Façade , his chamber music setting of Edith Sitwell ’ s eccentric poetry . His best works were written before he was 40 : a superb Viola Concerto ( 1928 – 1929 ), the spectacular oratorio Belshazzar ’ s Feast ( 1930 – 1931 ), his First Symphony ( 1931 – 1935 ) and the Violin Concerto ( 1938 – 1939 ).
Although he longed to win musical immortality through “ serious ” compositions , Walton was one of the first major composers to turn to the movies . The most famous of his many film scores were for Laurence Olivier ’ s Shakespeare trilogy — Henry V , Hamlet and Richard III — and they earned him a lot of money . The films financed his other composing and allowed him to move from damp , chilly
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