books.google.com.au - When in June 1923 a bewildered audience in London's Aeolian Hall heard Edith Sitwell declaim her Façade poems through a megaphone, the 21-year-old William Walton - conducting behind a painted backcloth - stood on the threshold of fame. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s he was regarded as the white hope...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/William_Walton.html?id=gnxM_3gNVFUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareWilliam Walton
