William Walton and W.H. Auden, classmates in Oxford as boys and ultimately two of their country's most famous men - composer and poet! Walton's "The Twelve", composed on Auden's text - truly acts as a miniature "Pilgrim's Progress"! This text is so poignant and the music so wedded to it that, as I sat in the first orchestra rehearsal last evening, I found myself embraced and embroiled in a story which lives in the instruments themselves. Personally, I have never heard a more moving orchestration - can hardly wait until the choir comes in and puts "face" to music with this text!
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