Frederick Ashton retirement in 1963, in the company known successively as the Vic-Wells Ballet, the Sadler's Wells Ballet and the Royal Ballet. He succeeded de Valois as director of the company, serving until his own retirement in 1970. Ashton is widely credited with the creation of a specifically English genre of ballet. Among his best-known works are "Façade" (1931), "Symphonic Variations" (1946), "Cinderella" (1948), "La fille mal gardée" (1960), "Monotones" I and II (1965), "Enigma Variations" (1968) and the feature film ballet "The Tales of Beatrix Potter" (1970). Ashton was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, the fourth of the five children of George
Gwyn Ashton Gwyn Ashton third best guitarist of the year, beaten by Jeff Beck and Gary Moore. In 2007, his album "Prohibition" was voted 'Album of the Year' by the British "Guitar and Bass" magazine. Ashton is endorsed by: Gwyn Ashton Gwyn Ashton (born 1960, Wales) is a Welsh-Australian blues/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter. The Welsh-born and singer/songwriter/guitarist Gwyn Ashton migrated to Adelaide, South Australia in the 1960s, picked up a guitar at 12 and at 16 started his musical journey, playing bars and festivals across the country. He relocated to Sydney in 1983, formed his own trio with drummers John Lalor (Heaven,