Weighing Walton

From: Musical Times | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

AN OLD VIENNESE scholar, with tears in his eyes, after listening to Walton's Viola Concerto in the 1930s, says to his English colleague: 'Here's the real thing - at last.' Twenty-five years later, a ten-year-old English boy in his primary school wants to be a composer. His genial, parochial class teacher, Mr Forster, with his flat feet, strong northern accent (from Oldham, for all I know) and no known musicality, tells him to listen to Walton's Viola Concerto. He can't: they don't have a gramophone at home. But Walton is in The Observer's book of music (as is the viola), and he remembers the ...

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