Parody is a Fine Art
WO of William Walton’s orchestral works were included in 4YA’s recent Modern British programme, Portsmouth Point was a delight, expressing in trim and jaunty style a subtly nautical mood, The Facade Suite, described by the announcer as "witty," deserves a more vivid adjective; it’s not so much witty as wickedly satirical, with its caricatures of saccharine melodies borrowed from the ‘pseudo-classics, orchestrated with vitriolic sarcasm, One expects it to burst at any moment into full-throated plagiarism, which it never quite does. Facade was originally performed as accompaniment to Edith Sitwell’s poems, but while the musical mind retains an appreciation of parody as a fine art, the music will continue to be performed for its own sake long after the Sitwell poems are forgotten,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 283, 24 November 1944, Page 8
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128Parody is a Fine Art New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 283, 24 November 1944, Page 8
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