Before about 1980, almost all culturally literate musicians trained on British models—not necessarily in Britain itself—discovered, generally by happenstance, Constant Lambert’s 1934 philippic Music ...

(The) Sleeping Beauty, Movements: Introduction Sadlers Wells Orchestra Constant Lambert, Conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer (The) Sleeping Beauty, Movements: Pas de Six Fairies present gifts ...

Stravinsky has had his fling with jazz and perhaps he still has a few hoop-a-doops left in his system. Ravel, Honegger, Hindemith, Křenek, and scads of other Europeans have experimented with hot ...

We go to the Proms in London to hear movie music by Constant Lambert. He was a 20th-century British gentleman and noted curmudgeon. In 1940 he wrote the film score for a documentary about the Merchant ...

In 1928, Constant Lambert was the first English composer to write a piece for the Ballet Russes, his Romeo and Juliet. In his version, the lovers manage to escape together by airplane. Barry ...