“To the seeker after the new, or the sensational, to those who expect a sinister frisson from modern music, it is my melancholy duty to point out that all the bomb throwing and guillotining has already taken place.”

—  Constant Lambert

"The Revolutionary Situation", p. 32.
Music, Ho! (1934)

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