The fugue is used to describe the making of the Spitfire a central lyrical violin solo depicts the exhaustion and dying by illness of the aircrafts designer R. His fugal movement for the assembly of parts of the Spitfire adds immensely to the most moving sequence in the film. Walton listened very carefully and said Oh I see, Leslie wants a lot of notes, and he went away and wrote The Spitfire Fugue. So after we had the viewing I went up to Walton and repeated what Leslie had said as accurately as I could. Leslie Howard, for some reason, could not be at the running of the film for Walton so he told me very elaborately what he wanted from the music.
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