To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
The average English critic is a don manqué, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
