Some photos from our recent project featuring Edward Nesbit's Strange Joy and William Walton's Façade. Photos by Anna Carter.
Staging Walton and Sitwell's Façade.
QMUL and ELMG
Funding from Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust
Strange Joy
I have known Matt Hardy since we worked together on a couple of projects as students at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. When earlier this year his newly-founded ensemble East London Music Group performed its debut concert in the Octagon, Queen Mary, University of London, I was coincidentally living just down the road in Bethnal Green, and very much enjoyed their compelling performance on Stravinsky’s The Soldiers Tale. I was delighted, therefore, when Matt approached me earlier this year to commission me to write a companion piece for William Walton’s Façade, to be premiered at Queen Mary on 24th November.