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7. Ibid., 106. 8. Lloyd, 93. Further, Wellington quoted Walton as saying “I knew little of the viola when I started save that it made a rather awful sound,” see William Walton, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra , ed. Christopher Wellington, vi. 9. Lloyd, 9. 10. Ibid., 14–15 and 82. 11. Ibid., 14–15. 12. White, 105. 13. Lionel Tertis, My Viola and I (Boston: Crescendo Publishing), 36. 14. Lloyd, 89. 15. Tertis, 36. 16. The tour also included several cities in Germany, where the concerto was performed by Tertis and conducted by Walton. 17. Lloyd, 95. Also recounted in White, 109. 18. White, 107. 19. Ibid., 107. 20. Ibid., 106. 21. Ibid., 107. 22. Lloyd, 94. 23. David Dalton: Playing the Viola: Conversations with William Primrose (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988), 197–98. 24. Ibid., 197. 25. Ibid.

26. Christopher Wellington, preface to William Walton, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra , vii. 27. Tertis , 81. This was a decision made because of rheumatism just before a BBC concert February 24, 1937. On that program he performed both the Walton Concerto and Berlioz’s Harold in Italy . 28. Christopher Wellington, e-mail message to author, February 14, 2014. 29. Ibid. 30. The doubled examples came from William Walton, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra , ed. Christopher Wellington. The Tertis examples came directly from the Tertis edition: William Walton, Concerto for Viola and Orchestra , viola part edited by Lionel Tertis (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930). 31. See chart. 32. See footnote 1. In 2014, OUP completed publication of a critical edition of Walton’s complete works, with general editor David Lloyd-Jones. Volume 12 is titled Concerto for Orchestra , edited by Christopher Wellington. This volume presents the entire concerto twice: first the 1929 edition with the Riddle version of the solo part and the original Walton solo part (in lighter ink). This 1929 version includes the modifications made up to 1955. The second complete score, the 1962 version, is the new orchestration with the Riddle solo part. 33. James Dunham, “Walton’s Viola Concerto: A Synthesis and Annotated Bibliography,” Journal of the American Viola Society 22, no. 1 (Spring 2006): 16. 34. The 1929 orchestration calls for four desks only of first violins, three desks only of second violins, two desks of violas, two desks of cellos and one desk of basses; the 1962 orchestration

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