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Constant Lambert

Beyond The Rio Grande

  • Author: Lloyd, Stephen
Lambert's fascinating, multifaceted personality and Lloyd's informed insights keep us turning the pages. (Four stars out of five.) More…

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Contents

  • A Meteor Fell . . . 1905-1914
  • At Christ's Hospital 1914-1922
  • The College 'Whizz-Kid' 1922-1926
  • Diaghilev and Disagreement 1925-1926
  • Early Ballets and Philip Heseltine 1926-1927
  • The Rio Grande and Jazz 1927-1930
  • Camargo and the Birth of British Ballet 1928-1931
  • Marriage and Journalism 1931
  • A Permanent Post 1932-1934
  • Let's to Billiards - Music Ho! 1934
  • Elgar and Delius; Enter Fonteyn 1934
  • Van Dieren and Walton 1935
  • Pestilence and Apparitions 1936
  • Checkmate and Horoscope 1937-1938
  • Double Bishops and Limericks 1939-1940
  • Escape from Holland 1940-1943
  • Small Fish and Large Cats 1944-1945
  • The Second Mrs Lambert 1945-1946
  • The Third Programme and The Fairy Queen
  • Snakes and Tiresias
  • 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
  • Bibliography
  • Index