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''Façade'' is a series of poems by Edith Sitwell, best known as part of ''Façade – An Entertainment'' in which the poems are recited over an instrumental accompaniment by William Walton. The poems and the music exist in several versions. Sitwell began to publish some of the ''Façade'' poems in 1918, in the literary magazine ''Wheels''. In 1922 many of them were given an orchestral accompaniment by Walton, Sitwell's protégé. The "entertainment" was first performed in public in 1923, and achieved both fame and notoriety for its unconventional form. Walton arranged two suites of his music for full orchestra. When Frederick Ashton made a ballet of ''Façade'' in 1931, Sitwell did not wish her poems to be part of it, and the orchestral arrangements were used. After Sitwell's death, Walton published supplementary versions of ''Façade'' for speaker and small ensemble using numbers dropped between the premiere and the publication of the full score in 1951. ==Versions== ''Façade'' exists in several strongly contrasted versions, principally: *Edith Sitwell's ''Façade and Other Poems, 1920–1935'' – the published versions of those of the poems chosen by the author for her 1950 volume of collected verse. *The Sitwell-Walton ''Façade'' (1951) – the first, and definitive published version of the full score of the entertainment *''Façade Revived'' (1977) – a set of eight poems and settings not included in the 1951 version, published by Walton to mark his 75th birthday *''Façade II'' (1979) – a revised version of ''Façade Revived'', with some numbers dropped and others added *''Façade – the complete version, 1922–1928'' – a 42-number CD set compiled and performed by Pamela Hunter (1993) restoring all the poems that Walton set, and nine that he did not set. *Walton's orchestral ''Façade Suites'' (1926 and 1938) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Façade (entertainment)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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