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The Jazz Age Transcript The Jazz Age Transcript Date: Tuesday, 6 November 2007 - 12:00AM Location: Barnard's Inn Hall THE JAZZ AGE Thomas Kemp Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to tonight's concert! Today's concert focuses on music from the jazz age. Our last concert represented composers that were writing during the First World War. We heard the marvellous Elgar Violin Sonata, which is richly romantic, and very much part of the great 19th Century tradition of Brahms, Mahler and Bruckner - these kind of composers, and it is a marvellous piece. That kind of lyricism continues in the music of Walton, but the actual harmonic language and the means that composers used to express music changed quite a lot, almost immediately with the end of the First World War. William Walton was born in 1902 in Oldham. To put this into some kind of context, he went to Christchurch Oxford as a chorister, so he was brought up in the great, rich tradition of English choral music, and in fact, later on in his career, he wrote many great choral works, including perhaps his finest piece, which is Belshazzar's Feast, which is a fantastic, blockbuster oratorio, with incredible panache, marvellous orchestration, and some really great, memorable tunes. The piece that we are going to hear tonight, Walton's Façade, was written very early on in his career. He had pretty much just left Oxford, and he was living in London at two Carlisle Square with the Sitwell Family. By all accounts, the Sitwells were a very eccentric bunch. They were writers, they were antagonists, they were acid to people they did not like, but they were extremely creative and they had a profound influence on Walton. Constant Lambert was a contemporary of Walton - he was born in 1905. His father was a painter. He came from pretty much the same part of London as the Sitwells. Walton and Lambert were very good friends and colleagues for a very long time, until actually Lambert's untimely death - he was only 46 when he died. But Walton and Lambert were two great British hopes at the beginning of the period after the First World War, along with Arthur Bliss. To try and put this into some kind of context, the Piano Quartet we played in our first concert, which was written while Arthur Bliss was serving in the army in France in 1915, was written by someone who was a soldier fighting for his country and it was an incredibly nostalgic piece and very romantic. It had quite a lot of pastoral-like tunes, and it was actually very reminiscent of the music of Vaughn Williams or folk music. Bliss, after the War, put this particular piece and a string quartet that he had written into a drawer, and they were never supposed to be played again. It was only until the beginning of this Century that they were actually allowed to be performed again. Bliss, along with Walton and Lambert, were very much into the new wave of music. To imagine that this new wave just happened all of a sudden would be a little bit naïve, because actually, before the First World War, there had been a lot of developments in music - for example, Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, also Pierrot Lunaire by Schoenberg, which was a very influential piece. These pieces started to have an impact on other composers. The other composer that wrote a piece that is not dissimilar to Façade in some ways is Stravinsky, who wrote A Soldier's Tale, L'histoire du Soldat, and this has a very similar kind of jazzy element, with foxtrots and tangos and popular dances. Walton actually, similarly to Stravinsky, uses these type of contemporary dances in his music and it is incredibly fun to listen to and it is very upbeat, but some of the poetry explores, if you like, the dark side of the force, so there are these movements in the Walton that have these very deep timbres and rather searching movements, which are not dissimilar to some of the music that you would hear in Pierrot Lunaire. The piece that we are going to hear tonight emerged after a period of time, because the first performances of Façade in 1921 were held in a private house and there were a lot less numbers than you will hear tonight, and actually, I think there are over forty numbers that could be put into Façade as an entertainment. It was actually Lambert that decided to have a little subtle dig at Schoenberg, that him and Walton would do 21 numbers, because this is the number that you have in Pierrot Lunaire, and in Pierrot Lunaire, you have three lots of seven numbers, and in this particular Façade, you have seven lots of three numbers, so this is something of a subtle dig at Schoenberg. The music, obviously, is influenced by theatre cabaret. It is a very theatrical piece; it's a very amusing piece. In a way, Schoenberg has this element, but it is much more under the surface. But what is quite interesting, and I think this goes back to the kind of literature and also the style of the music Walton sometimes uses: he often uses music that sounds like Spanish or Italian music, perhaps a 'Mediterraneanisation', if you like, of the music to give it some kind of exotic colour. Actually, the kind of Spanish element exists in Schoenberg because of Commedia dell'arte, the Spanish pirate. All these different characters that exist in Commedia dell'arte inspired composers to write in a specific way. So there are links with something that sounds quite academic and serious, although actually it is not at all, and this piece, which is very fun in a lot of ways. I think it is very interesting to compare the music of the Weimar era and Walton's, Lambert, Bliss - this kind of jazz era. The Weimar is much more cynical, if you like, and brittle and packing a political punch, if you think of Brecht and Weil writing together in the '20s and '30s. This music is subversive and funny, but it does not necessarily pack a political punch - it is for people to enjoy, and I think that that was one of the overriding feelings that people had after the First World War. This was like Arthur Bliss, he wanted to forget what he'd written in the past and wanted to move on to something new. It was a kind of catharsis of his composition. This was one of the ways that they found a new way of writing music. In London, jazz became very popular in the '20s, and in fact, there was a famous review, 'From Dover to Dixieland' in 1925, with C. B. Cochrane, the trumpet player. He was the inventor of the 'wa-wa' trumpet, and you can actually hear that in one of the numbers in Façade, and one of the great pieces that Lambert wrote, the Rio Grande. There is lots of this sort of influence of Dixieland and this kind of freedom of expression, but incredibly vibrant rhythmic energy. Walton went on to perhaps become a much greater composer than Lambert. Lambert was a very interesting character. He was considered to be an absolutely brilliant individual. He, because of his background - his father was an artist - knew a lot of people who were artistic and literary as a young person, and he was extremely interested in literature, painting, poetry, all different types of art, and he was actually a brilliant writer. His autobiography, 'Music Ho!' is one of the best books about a composer's life and times that you can possibly read - it is hilarious, and it is quite bias, but at least it makes a point. There is no mucking about; it is full of great anecdotes, and very interesting observations of that particular period of time between the First and Second Wars. Perhaps because he was divided in so many directions, Lambert was a very good conductor. He did so much to put ballet on the map. He was one of the key people involved in the Vic Wells Ballet and was the conductor there. He did many distinguished productions, including ballets by Bliss. He also made a huge splash when he was twenty when Diaghilev, who actually came to the second performance of Walton's Façade, asked Lambert to write a ballet for the Ballet Russes, which was at that particular period probably the most famous artistic powerhouse in Europe, because Stravinsky, Ravel, all these great composers, were writing ballet music for this incredible Russian ballet. There were people like Picasso doing set designs, so it was a very great honour to be asked by this man, although, by all accounts, he was a very difficult individual, very tight with money, and very difficult to get on with. Lambert wrote a piece, Romeo and Juliet, and it was something of a disaster, but Diaghilev messed it up for him and he was very upset about it, but it did get his name out there when he was very young, and he was the only British composer to have the honour of writing a piece for the Ballet Russes. His love of ballet and his love of design and art served him very well during his career as a conductor conducting ballet, and ironically, just before he died, when Radio 3 had just been formed, he started to do a lot of studio recordings and live concerts, conducting all the great orchestras in Britain, so he was an extremely talented conductor.
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