With Donald Macleod.
According to Sacheverell Sitwell, one of the redeeming points of being at Oxford was meeting "an English musical genius", a 16-year-old boy called WT Walton. Together with his brother Osbert and sister Edith, Sitwell decided to help
William Walton. The Sitwell's assistance wasn't simply financial; Osbert provided accommodation for Walton in a room on the top floor of his house in Chelsea, and with Sitwell patronage came an automatic entree into the artistic circles necessary to an up-and-coming young composer. For his part, Walton eagerly lapped up his new life in London. He loved going to everything, especially the ballet and the theatre. One of his favourite haunts was the Lyceum theatre, a venue well known for its revues and probably where the seeds of Facade, the work which brought Walton into the public eye, were sown. Toccata for violin and piano Kenneth Sillito (violin), Hamish Milne (piano)
Facade Edith Sitwell, Peter Pears, English Opera Group Ensemble, conductor Anthony Collins (conductor)