Constant Lambert: Beyond the Rio GrandeBoydell & Brewer Ltd, 2014 - 584 pagina's An indispensable biography for anyone interested in Constant Lambert, ballet and British musical life in the first part of the twentieth century. To the economist and ballet enthusiast John Maynard Keynes he was potentially the most brilliant man he'd ever met; to Dame Ninette de Valois he was the greatest ballet conductor and advisor this country has ever had; to the composer Denis ApIvor he was the greatest, most lovable, and most entertaining personality of the musical world; whilst to the dance critic Clement Crisp he was quite simply a musician of genius. Yet sixty years after his tragic earlydeath Constant Lambert is little known today. As a composer he is remembered for his jazz-inspired The Rio Grande but little more, and for a man who selflessly devoted the greater part of his life to the establishment of English ballet his work is largely unrecognized today. This book amply demonstrates why he deserves to be held in greater renown. STEPHEN LLOYD is a writer on British music and author of William Walton: Muse of Fire (Boydell, 2001). |
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1 190514 A Meteor Fell | 1 |
2 191522 At Christs Hospital | 10 |
3 19226 The College WhizzKid | 32 |
4 19256 Diaghilev and Disagreement | 54 |
5 19267 Early Ballets and Philip Heseltine | 73 |
6 192730 The Rio Grande and Jazz | 96 |
7 192831 Camargo and the Birth of British Ballet | 123 |
8 1931 Marriage and Journalism | 144 |
20 19501 Snakes and Tiresias | 389 |
Appendix 1 The Compositions of Constant Lambert | 420 |
Appendix 2 Synopsis of Tiresias | 439 |
Appendix 3 A Constant Lambert Discography | 441 |
Appendix 4 Constant Lamberts Journalism | 472 |
Appendix 5 Constant Lamberts Talks for the BBC | 503 |
Appendix 6 Constant Lamberts BBC Talks on Modern Dance Music Jazz | 507 |
Appendix 7 Constant Lamberts Third Programme Broadcasts | 513 |
9 19324 A Permanent Post | 159 |
10 1934 Lets to Billiards Music Ho | 179 |
11 1934 Elgar and Delius Enter Fonteyn | 195 |
12 1935 Van Dieren and Walton | 208 |
13 1936 Pestilence and Apparitions | 218 |
14 19378 Checkmate and Horoscope | 245 |
15 193940 Double Bishops and Limericks | 264 |
16 19403 Escape from Holland | 286 |
17 19445 Small Fish and Large Cats | 320 |
18 19456 The Second Mrs Lambert | 335 |
19 194650 The Third Programme and The Fairy Queen | 352 |
Appendix 8 Constant Lamberts Conducting Engagements at the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts | 524 |
Anthony Powell Hugh Moreland and Constant Lambert | 529 |
Appendix 10 C B Rees on Constant Lambert | 535 |
Appendix 11 A Constant Lambert Iconography | 537 |
Appendix 12 Lamberts Limericks and Other Verses | 543 |
Appendix 13 VicWells Sadlers Wells London Repertoire | 545 |
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