Editing Constant Lambert (section)

==Early life and music==
[[File:The artist’s wife, Amy, and their son Constant - George Washington Lambert - ref Lambert-98142.jpg|thumb|left|'The artist’s wife, Amy, and their son Constant' by [[George Washington Lambert]] ]]
The son of Australian painter [[George Washington Lambert|George Lambert]] and his wife Amy, and the younger brother of [[Maurice Lambert]], Constant Lambert was educated at [[Christ's Hospital]] near [[Horsham]] in West Sussex. While still a boy he demonstrated formidable musical gifts, and wrote his first orchestral work at the age of 13. In September 1922 Lambert entered the Royal College of Music, where his teachers were [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], [[R. O. Morris]] and Sir&nbsp;[[George Dyson (composer)|George Dyson]] (composition), [[Malcolm Sargent]] (conducting) and [[Herbert Fryer]] (piano).<ref name="naxos">{{cite web |title=Constant Lambert- Bio, Albums, Pictures – Naxos Classical Music. |url=https://www.naxos.com/person/Constant_Lambert_39495/39495.htm |website=Naxos|access-date=11 March 2019}}</ref> His contemporaries there included the pianist [[Angus Morrison (pianist)|Angus Morrison]], conductor [[Guy Warrack]], [[Thomas Armstrong (musician)|Thomas Armstrong]] (a future head of the [[Royal Academy of Music]]), and the composers [[Gavin Gordon (composer)|Gavin Gordon]], [[Patrick Hadley]] and [[Gordon Jacob]].<ref>Lloyd, Stephen (2015). [https://books.google.com/books?id=hMzCAwAAQBAJ&q=%22Royal+College+of+Music%22 ''Constant Lambert: Beyond the Rio Grande'']. p. 32.</ref> 
[[File:Constant Lambert as a Blue coat boy.jpg|thumb|Lambert aged about eleven in the uniform of [[Christ's Hospital]], painting by his father [[George Washington Lambert|George Lambert]]]]
In 1925 (at the age of 20) he received a high profile commission to write a ballet for [[Sergei Diaghilev]]'s [[Ballets Russes]] (''Roméo et Juliette'', 1926, choreographed by [[Nijinska]]). For a few years he enjoyed celebrity, through the broader success of his next ballet (the neo-classical ''Pomona'' of 1927, choreographed again by Nijinska), and through his participation as narrator in many public performances (and a recording) of [[William Walton]] and [[Edith Sitwell]]'s controversial ''[[Façade (entertainment)|Façade]]''.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Driver | first=Paul | title=''Façade'' Revisited | journal=Tempo |series=New Series | volume=133/134 | pages=3–9 |date=September 1980| issue=133–134 | doi=10.1017/S0040298200031211 | s2cid=251412618 }}</ref>