Word: ischia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Walton, who now lives with his Argentine-born wife on the Italian island of Ischia, is well aware that he is considered old hat by a younger generation of English composers. Perhaps because he flunked out of Oxford for failing algebra, he has never had the slightest interest in "mucking about the tone-rows." And even if he did, he is not persuaded that it would help his reputation. These days, Walton observes, musical one-upmanship has become such a complex art that "it is quite possible to go in and out of fashion four or five times during...