“It is only comparatively primitive machinery that affords a stimulus, and there is already a faint period touch about Pacific 231 and Le Pas d'Acier. One feels...that Prokofieff should have written ballets about the spinning jenny and the Luddite riots; that Honegger should have been there to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the death of Huskisson with a "Symphonie Triomphale et Funèbre".” FeelsShouldHas BeensFunWrittenPeriodsShould HaveOpeningCelebratePrimitiveMachinerySpinningStimulusShould Have BeenRiotPacificRailwayJenny Author:Constant Lambert
