"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."
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Constant Lambert in: Sir Ernest MacMillan MacMillan on Music: Essays on Music, Dundurn, 1997, p. 114
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