The opening notes of the Last Night of the Proms ring out Royal Albert Hall. With the breezy C major opening idea occurring to him on the upper deck of a No. 22 London bus, ‘Portsmouth Point’ was the composition that put William Walton on the map 🗺️ Walton first conducted this jolly piece aged twenty-something at the #BBCProms in 1927, and nearly 97 years later it’s receiving its first outing at the #LNotP 🎉 | BBC Proms

12K views · 300 reactions | On this day, English composer Sir William Walton was born in 1902 | Across his six-decade career, Walton wrote notable film scores and concertos premiered by Jascha Heifetz and Paul Hindemith | Here Tabea Zimmermann performs Walton's Viola Concerto with conductor David Shallon and the Spanish RTVE Orchestra in 1994 | Read more at https://theviolinchannel.com/composer-sir-william-walton-born-on-this-day-1902/ | The Violin Channel | Facebook