The Edith Sitwell / William Walton collaboration, "Façade - an Entertainment," had it's public premiere on this day 100 years ago (June 12, 1923)! In 1918 Edith Sitwell had begun publishing some of the Façade poems she would later (1950) collect in book form, and in early 1922 she and Walton collaborated in Façade – An Entertainment. The first public performance consisted of her declaiming her verse – experimental in the meaningful nonsense style of Lewis Carroll – from behind a screen while Wal