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Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun sets to music Mallarme's L'Apresmidi d'un Faune, a symbolist poem replete with a striking vagueness, fluidity and sense of reverie. A faun--half man, half goat--arises from his sleep near Mount Aetna in Italy and wanders through the woods. The whole image is one of dreamy light and dark, tentativeness and delicacy. The faun chases a group of nymphs up and down the mountain, but ultimately loses them as he once again yields to the soothing oppressiveness of sleep...
...would not come the way Sally Rand did and simply lecture; I would dance for them; I would dance the 'Apresmidi d'un Faune' if they only could get me a symphony orchestra," she continued...
...Program follows: Weber Overture to "Euryanthe" Debussy "Prelude a 1' apresmidi d'un Faun." Dukas "L' Apprenti Sorcier" Tchaikovsky Symphony No. six in B minor Scheizo, After a Ballad by Goethe
Friday afternoon and Saturday evening in Symphony Hall the last pair of the Symphony Orchestra concerts for this season with Mr. Monteux taking leave of orchestra and audience. The program embraces Beethoven's Fifth Symphony; Carpenter's "Adventures in a Perambulator"; Debussy's "L'ApresMidi Midi d' un Faune" and the Overture to "Tanuhaeuser...
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