tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post5360906279675988523..comments2023-11-03T09:05:31.265-04:00Comments on Soho the Dog: Variations (5): Tech rehearsalMatthewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10936327293692397100noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-75293156131500680422008-03-14T16:07:00.000-04:002008-03-14T16:07:00.000-04:00Robert,Thanks for the recommendations. I read the ...Robert,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the recommendations. I read the Shead book years ago and don't really remember it. There is another one, kind of—Andrew Motion's <I>The Lamberts</I>, which covers three generations. (They were all pretty crazy, it turns out.)Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10936327293692397100noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32354680.post-64807841191087556192008-03-14T14:20:00.000-04:002008-03-14T14:20:00.000-04:00Don't forget that Arnold Bax wrote a ballet with t...Don't forget that Arnold Bax wrote a ballet with the oddball title "The Truth About Russian Dancers." (....) Re: your recent post about Constant Lambert, which is a bit off-topic. You mentioned that you'd like to do a bio of him; I think the only bio of him is the 1973 bio by Richard Shead. Here's the odd thing: Shead also wrote a book about the Ballet Russe, and an excellent book about Paris in the 20's. ...well. Why not write a book about Lambert and the English classical music scene of the 20's, while you're at it? The only *really* good book on it is Peter J.Pirie's "The English Music Rennaissance" -- which in fact covers over 50 years. As the art historian Robert Hughes wrote when an incredible show of the painter/actor Sickert's work was up at Yale years ago (I saw it and bought the catalogue), people have so assumed nothing happened in England at the time (including the English), that it's an undiscovered country. Not only are we now discovering the microtonal works of John Foulds, whom Shaw tried to prevent from going to --and dying -- in India, but there's the mysterious Van Dieren, whose only work on CD is, I think, his third string quartet. Add in the weirder young works of Bliss, Bax, Walton, and the other ... you may end up with quite a book.<BR/>... best wishes, Robert Bonotto, Boston.rbonottohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00792653133273022186noreply@blogger.com