Constant Lambert

Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 1905 – 21 August 1951) was a British composer and conductor.

Lambert, the son of Russian-born Australian painter George Lambert, was educated at Christ's Hospital and the Royal College of Music. Lambert was a prodigy, writing orchestral works from the age of 13, and at 20 received a commission to write a ballet for Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes (Romeo and Juliet).

For a few years he enjoyed a meteoric celebrity, including participating in a recording of William Walton's Façade with Edith Sitwell. Lambert's best known composition is The Rio Grande (1927) for piano and alto soloists, chorus, and orchestra of brass, strings and percussion. It achieved instant success, and Lambert made two recordings of the piece as conductor (1930 and 1949). He had a great interest in American Negro music, and once said that he would have ideally liked The Rio Grande to feature a black choir.

During the 1930s, his career as a conductor took off with his appointment with the Vic-Wells ballet (later The Royal Ballet), but his career as a composer stagnated. His major choral work Summer's Last Will and Testament (after the play of the same name by Thomas Nashe), one of his most emotionally dark works, proved unfashionable in the mood following the death of George V, but Alan Frank hailed it at the time as Lambert's "finest work". Lambert himself considered he had failed as a composer, and completed only two major works in the remaining sixteen years of his life. Instead he concentrated on conducting, and appeared at Covent Garden and in BBC radio broadcasts, and accompanied the ballet in European and American tours.

Archaeologists Find Skeletons, Gold Coins In Buried Pompeii Shop

Edit WorldNews.com 24 Jun 2016

In the workshop was an oven that archaeologists think might have been used to make bronze objects.The excavation of that and a second ancient shop started in May near a necropolis in the Herculaneum port area. Archaeologists are puzzling over what kind of business the second shop did ... tomb of an adult, complete with funerary vases ... Pompeii and nearby Herculaneum were ancient Roman towns....

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Musician David Byrne Pens Stinging Gun-Control Essay Aimed At US

Edit WorldNews.com 24 Jun 2016

Former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne join a growing list of public figures and artists confronting the growing gun control crisis in the US this week by penning an impassioned plea in an essay in support of firearms restrictions, Billboard reported.Less than two weeks after the massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Fla., Byrne wrote, “We ware [sic] are ware here,” in an essay entitled “Guns Are About Freedom....

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Brexit: David Cameron resigns as prime minister

Edit The Irish Times 24 Jun 2016

David Cameron has resigned as British prime minister following the failure of his Remain side to win the referendum on staying in the EU. Mr Cameron called the vote on Brexit in 2013 under pressure from the anti-EU wing of his Conservative Party and Ukip, hoping to end decades of debate over the UK’s ties with Europe ... With a turnout of 72.2 per cent, 51.9 per cent voted to leave; 48.1 per cent voted to remain ... Irish government reaction....

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A Falun Gong member demonstrates in front of the EU Council building in Brussels, Thursday June 15, 2006. Falun Gong members demonstrated outside a meeting of EU leaders on Thursday to ask for help against what they claim is illegal human organ harvesting of Falun Gong members by China.

Investigators: China Still Harvesting Human Organs on Huge Scale

Edit Voa News 24 Jun 2016

In 2006, Canadian human rights lawyer David Matas and former Canadian Asia-Pacific Secretary of State David Kilgour began an investigation into accusations of the Chinese government's role in harvesting the organs of Falun Gong practitioners. Their published findings, "Bloody Harvest. Revised Report into Allegations of Organ Harvesting of Falun Gong Practitioners in China," attracted international attention ... soil in 2004 ... ....

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Donald Trump held his first town hall meeting Wednesday night before a rowdy Derry, New Hampshire crowd that cheered, chimed in and booed when he mentioned his presidential rivals

Trump applauds decisions by British people to bolt EU

Edit Austin American Statesman 24 Jun 2016

Donald Trump is saluting the United Kingdom's vote to leave the European Union, saying "they took back their country, it's a great thing." ... ....

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New York City film producers looking to new projects after success with rock doc

Edit The Examiner 19 Dec 2015

Cooper and Loretta Harms founded Motocinema in New York City a decade ago, as they produced the nonfiction film “Lambert & Stamp” — the story of how two aspiring filmmakers became the managers and creative force behind one of the biggest rock bands, The Who ... Lambert was the son of renowned classical music composer and conductor Constant Lambert, while Stamp was the blue collar son of a tugboat captain....

'Repugnant', 'uninspired' and 'awful' - works hated by their own composers

Edit The Guardian 25 Jun 2015

From Beethoven to Ravel, and Elgar to Saint-Saëns, 10 of the best-known pieces that their composers disowned despite – or perhaps because of – their popularlity. Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March, a fixture at the Last Night of the Proms, but a work disliked by its composer. Photograph. Dan Chung/Guardian. Anthony Bateman ... Beethoven ... Beethoven ... At its premiere in 1928 there were shouts of “Rubbish!’, while Constant Lambert opined ... ....

City Choir presents Sea & Land

Edit Otago Daily Times 06 Jun 2015

"The Rio Grande" was written by Constant Lambert in 1927, and it achieved instant and long-lasting fame and is performed almost worldwide. Set to a poem by Sachaverell Sitwell, 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 ... WhenDate. . Saturday, August 8, 2015. Start Time. ... ....

Lambert & Stamp review – the men who made the Who

Edit The Guardian 17 May 2015

Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert, ... The unlikely creative partnership between Oxford-educated Kit Lambert (son of classical composer/conductor Constant Lambert) and Chris Stamp (brother of actor Terence) provided the spark that turned R&B band the High Numbers into rock opera-creating behemoth the Who....

Lambert Stamp review – the men who made the Who

Edit Big News Network 17 May 2015

he unlikely creative partnership between Oxford-educated Kit Lambert (son of classical composer/conductor Constant Lambert) and Chris Stamp (brother of actor Terence) provided the spark that turned ... ....

Who fans will give ‘Stamp’ of approval

Edit Boston Herald 01 May 2015

They could not have been more different, although they shared a fondness for such films as Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless.” Chris was a Thames tugboat-captain’s son and the even more handsome filmmaker brother of film star Terence Stamp, while Kit was the gay, posh, chain-smoking, Oxford-educated son of conductor/composer Constant Lambert....

'Pretend You're in a War -- The Who and The Sixties' by Mark Blake

Edit Huffington Post 24 Apr 2015

Kit Lambert and Mr ... Lambert and Stamp were an oil 'n' water mix. Kit, the brilliant wild gay son of an infamous classical composer, Constant Lambert, who unforgivably outraged British high society culture by claiming a Duke Ellington or Charlie Parker was every bit as valid as Debussy or Mozart ... One thing that is very obvious is that Kit Lambert's vision for the band was brilliant, but, his expertise in the recording studio was nil....

'Lambert & Stamp' chronicles the fascinating managers behind the Who

Edit Lexington Herald-Leader 07 Apr 2015

Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp were a class apart. Lambert was a member of the aristocracy. His father was composer-conductor Constant Lambert ... "Lambert & Stamp," a new documentary from director James D ... Along the way, Lambert and Stamp created a successful label, Track Records ... Lambert, who battled drug and alcohol addiction, died in 1981 at age 45 of a cerebral hemorrhage after a fall at his mother's house....

Documentary reveals management team behind The Who

Edit The Examiner 07 Apr 2015

The story of Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, British filmmakers who in the Swingin’ Sixties approached an up-and-coming band called The High Numbers (which became The Who) to illustrate the underground music scene brewing in London at the time, was irresistible to filmmaker/musician James D ... Even that was complicated because while his father was Constant Lambert, there were all the dynamics that come with a daunting legacy....

'Lambert & Stamp' explores the 'mesmerizing' duo who managed the Who

Edit The Los Angeles Times 04 Apr 2015

Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp were polar opposites. Lambert was a member of the aristocracy. His father was composer-conductor Constant Lambert ... 'Lambert & Stamp Sony Pictures Classics ... Chris Stamp, Pete Townshend and Kit Lambert in a still from the movie "Lambert & Stamp." (Sony Pictures Classics) ... "Lambert & Stamp," a documentary from director James D....

A Tale of Mod Cool, Drugs, Addiction and Recovery

Edit Huffington Post 20 Mar 2015

I was recently blown away by a fascinating documentary, to be released by Sony on April 3rd, revealing the brilliance and daring of the two young men -- Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert -- who discovered The Who and brought, dragged, finessed and nurtured them onto world stage ... His unlikely partner was Kit Lambert, son of the composer Constant Lambert....

Research and performance join in Stanford scholar's study of interwar music (Stanford University)

Edit noodls 10 Mar 2015

Wittstruck's research combines dance scholarship with music history in an examination of three ballets written between the two world wars - TheSeven Deadly Sins by Kurt Weill, Les Biches (meaning "does," or female deer) by Francis Poulenc and Horoscope by Constant Lambert ... "I would love to think about staging the Constant Lambert ballet, ......

The aristo and the spiv: the true story of the men behind the Who

Edit IMDb 21 Feb 2015

That is about to change with a documentary about the relationship between Kit Lambert, the aristocratic, homosexual son of the classical composer Constant Lambert, and ......

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