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This thesis considers the music of the English composer Constant Lambert (1905–51) against the background of European modernism. It argues that Lambert absorbed influences and stylistic trends from various strands of the modernist movement, achieving a unique synthesis that may be termed Dionysian modernism. Dionysian modernism emphasizes such topics as excess, transgression, liminality ...
22 de ene. de 2015 · Constant Lambert: Beyond the Rio Grande. by Stephen Lloyd. Boydell, 584 pp., £45, March 2014, 978 1 84383 898 2. Constant Lambert is a composer one would like to have met. This has nothing in particular to do with the quality of his music, though he was a much better composer than you might deduce from the scarcity of performances of his work.
Constant Leonard Lambert, född 23 augusti 1905 i London, död 21 augusti 1951 i London, var en brittisk dirigent och tonsättare. Lambert studerade vid Royal College of Music för Ralph Vaughan Williams. Redan vid 13 års ålder komponerade han orkesterverk och 1925 uppfördes hans balett Romeo and Juliet av Ballets Russes och ...
Constant Lambert est un compositeur et chef d'orchestre britannique, né à Londres le 23 août 1905, décédé au même lieu le 21 août 1951 [1]. Biographie [ modifier | modifier le code ] En 1922 , il intègre le Royal College of Music où il étudie le piano , la composition notamment avec Ralph Vaughan Williams et la direction d' orchestre avec Malcolm Sargent .
Constant Lambert. A portrait of Constant Lambert painted by Christopher Wood. Leonard Constant Lambert ( 23 August 1905 – 21 August 1951) was an English conductor, critic and modernist composer. In the 1920s he was among the first to write jazz-influenced classical music.
The Rio Grande is a secular cantata by English composer Constant Lambert. Written in 1927, it achieved instant and long-lasting popularity on its appearance on the concert stage in 1929. [1] [2] It is an example of symphonic jazz, not unlike the style of George Gershwin 's Rhapsody in Blue, although it is very much Lambert's individual conception.
Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 1905 – 21 August 1951) was a British composer, conductor, and author. He was the founder and music director of the Royal Ballet, and (alongside Dame Ninette de Valois and Sir Frederick Ashton) he was a major figure in the establishment of the English ballet as a significant artistic movement.
