| Description |
xxii, 584 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Tributes from Lambert's friends and acquaintances -- A chronology -- 1905-14: A meteor fell -- 1915-22: At Christ's Hospital -- 1922-6: The college "whizz-kid" -- 1925-6: Diaghilev and disagreement -- 1926-7: Early ballets and Philip Heseltine -- 1927-30: The Rio Grande and jazz -- 1928-31: Camargo and the birth of British ballet -- 1931: Marriage and journalism -- 1932-4: A permanent post -- 1934: Let's to billiards -- Music Ho! -- 1934: Elgar and Delius; enter Fonteyn -- 1935: Van Dieren and Walton -- 1936: Pestilence and apparitions -- 1937-8: Checkmate and Horoscope -- 1939-40: Double bishops and limericks -- 1940-3: Escape from Holland -- 1944-5: Small fish and large cats -- 1945-6: The second Mrs. Lambert -- 1946-50: The Third Programme and The Fairy Queen -- 1950-1: Snakes and Tiresias. |
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Appendix 1: The compositions of Constant Lambert -- Appendix 2: Synopsis of Tiresias -- Appendix 3: A Constant Lambert discography -- Appendix 4: Constant Lambert's journalism -- Appendix 5: Constant Lambert's talks for the BBC -- Appendix 6: Constant Lambert's BBC talks on modern dance music (jazz) -- Appendix 7: Constant Lambert's Third Programme broadcasts -- Appendix 8: Constant Lambert's conducting engagements at the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts -- Appendix 9: A Dance to the Music of Time: Anthony Powell, Hugh Moreland, and Constant Lambert -- Appendix 10: C.B. Rees on Constant Lambert -- Appendix 11: A Constant Lambert iconography -- Appendix 12: Lambert's limericks and other verses -- Appendix 13: Vic-Wells / Sadler's Wells London repertoire. |
| Summary |
"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 ... death 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 ... devoted the greater part of his life to the establishment of English ballet his work is largely unrecognized today. [This book] looks not only at his music but at his journalism, his talks for the BBC, his championing of jazz (in particular, Duke Ellington), and, more privately - his longstanding affair with Margot Fonteyn. ..."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Lambert, Constant, 1905-1951.
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Lambert, Constant, 1905-1951. |
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Composers -- England -- Biography.
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Composers. |
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England. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Conductors (Music) -- England -- Biography.
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Conductors (Music) |
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9781843838982 |
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1843838982 |
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