Chicago Pro Musica – William Walton’s Facade album art
I came across this showing in a poor reproduction in an exhibition in a very small local museum.
William Walton’s Façade is the musical part of Façade – An Entertainment, which comprises a reading of the Façade poems of Edith Sitwell accompanied by the music. It exists and has been performed in many different versions since its public premier in 1923.
This version, without poetry, was recorded by Chicago Pro Musica and apparently earned a Grammy award for Best New Classical Artist (from Wikipedia).
The fonts chosen for the album art are approximately period appropriate (at least for the original performances, not for this 1984 Reference Recordings version): Bifur for “Façade” and “Chicago Pro Musica”; and Futura for the rest of the text .
