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    <title>Janaia Donaldson at Fonts In Use</title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Chicago Pro Musica – William Walton’s&nbsp;Facade  album art]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Contributed by <a href="/contributors/29474/drj">D Jones</a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/70108/chicago-pro-musica-william-walton-sandnbsp-fa"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/use-media-items/265/264183/upto-700xauto/69b60bd3/Facade.jpeg"/></a><br/><br/><i><b>Source:&nbsp;<span class="fiu-attribution__sourceUrl"><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/125782519166" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.ebay.com</a></span>&nbsp;</b><span><span class="fiu-attribution__credits fiu-text--captioning">virtuoso vinyl records (edited)</span>. </span><span>License: <span class="fiu-attribution__license">All Rights Reserved</span><span>. </span></span></i><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/3147/bifur"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/samples/13/12978/440/4/662d00ee/bifur.png"/></a><br/><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/4/futura"><img src="https://assets.fontsinuse.com/static/renders/1/4/400/4/6a52aaf6/futura.png"/></a><br/><br/><p>I came across this showing in a poor reproduction in an exhibition in a very small local museum.</p>

<p>William Walton’s <cite>Façade</cite> is the musical part of <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%C3%A7ade_(entertainment)">Façade – An Entertainment</a></cite>, which comprises a reading of the Façade poems of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Sitwell">Edith Sitwell</a> accompanied by the music. It exists and has been performed in many different versions since its public premier in 1923.</p>

<p>This version, without poetry, was recorded by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pro_Musica">Chicago Pro Musica</a> and apparently earned a Grammy award for Best New Classical Artist (from Wikipedia).</p>

<p>The fonts chosen for the album art are approximately period appropriate (at least for the original performances, not for this <a href="https://archive.org/details/lp_facade-suite_sir-william-walton-chicago-pro-musica-a/page/n2/mode/1up">1984 Reference Recordings version</a>): <strong><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/3147/bifur">Bifur</a></strong> for “Façade” and “Chicago Pro Musica”; and <strong><a href="https://fontsinuse.com/typefaces/4/futura">Futura</a></strong> for the rest of the text .</p>

<p>[<a href="https://www.discogs.com/master/1093309-William-Walton-Chicago-Pro-Musica-Fa%C3%A7ade-An-Instrumental-Suite-In-The-Original-Scoring">More info on Discogs</a>]</p><br/><br/>This post was originally published at <a href="https://fontsinuse.com/uses/70108/chicago-pro-musica-william-walton-sandnbsp-fa">Fonts In Use</a><hr/>]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2025 12:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <author>D Jones</author>
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