The ‘richness’ all his friends noted about Constant Lambert ran the full gamut of experience, in his music as in his life. Everything was what it was to the full, everything acted out with the utmost passion and conviction. Was it the theatre in him? Was there an element of schizophrenia echoing that of Philip Heseltine (also known as Peter Warlock). ‘Down’ was really down—the abyss (Summer’s Last Will and Testament); ‘up’ was preternaturally up, as in the unique, ageless and dateless Rio Grande.