“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)

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British composer and conductor 1905–1951

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