Constant Lambert: Timing

Constant Lambert was British composer and conductor. Explore interesting quotes on timing.

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“Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to be wondered at if the public is very nearly as slow in the uptake.”

Constant Lambert

"The Revolutionary Situation", p. 31.
Music, Ho! (1934)

“There is a definite limit to the length of time a composer can go on writing in one dance rhythm (this limit is obviously reached by Ravel towards the end of La Valse and towards the beginning of Bolero).”

Constant Lambert

"Exoticism and Low Life", p. 174.
Music, Ho! (1934)

“Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.”

Constant Lambert

"Music and the Naughty 'Nineties", p. 64.
Music, Ho! (1934)