The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play it over again and play it rather louder. Most Russian music, indeed, consists in ringing changes… — 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
