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had died just over a week before, and the sombre mood of the country was undoubtedly inimical to a work replete with references to plague, disease and death, and to the persistent aura of fatalism which affected much of
Lambert's music. Although this tepid response could well have been anticipated
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provided support, ostensibly with the choral parts, but also with advice on the composition. Lambert inscribed the vocal score he gave to
Greenbaum: "To Hyam Greenbaum (who as far as I remember wrote most of this work) from Constant Lambert".
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Florence", his then wife Florence Chuter (aka Florence Kaye), whom he had married in 1931. A limited edition of the two-piano score, with six drawings by
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