Word: faun
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chilean Composer and Musicologist Juan Allende-Blin reconstructed and orchestrated about 400 bars of the opera. Debussy's brooding music is spheres apart from the pastoral beauties of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun or the nautical tone painting of La Mer. Indeed, in its consummate wedding of text to music, the work Usher most closely resembles is Debussy's only completed opera, the shadowy symbolist drama Pelleas et Melisande. The tormented Roderick Usher, Poe's unhappy protagonist, is depicted in agonized music that is drenched by the misery in the man's soul. Debussy intended Usher to last...
...course, was Charles Spencer Chaplin, in his time the most beloved figure in film, perhaps in the world, and for all time the greatest master of screen comedy. He was also one of the century's great celebrities and surely one of the most mysterious. Part faun, part satyr, he was avidly stalked, not just by gossips and journalists but by artistic, intellectual and political leaders fascinated by his movies. Yet he permitted only the briefest glimpses of his true self as he flitted through the thicket of myth and misinformation he deliberately created as a hiding place. Even...
...Merlin, the hero is observed just before the Arthurian legend, when the world is a crystalline Stonehenge and miracles are the order of the day. His teacher is a sage (played by Edmund Lyndeck, a seasoned performer). The faun who haunts his dreams (Rebecca Wright) is a comet from American Ballet Theater. And his enemy, the wicked Queen, is Chita Rivera, a blast furnace best remembered from West Side Story. In the classic tradition, gorgon and wise man vie for the magician's soul and the privilege of influencing the unseen Arthur, the once and future king...
...million new black voters have registered for this year's election, according to Joseph Madison of the N.A.A.C.P. A Chicago group last month signed up 40,000 new voters, largely by sending vans to the city's unemployment and welfare offices. Says Congressional Delegate Walter Faun troy of Washington, D.C.: "There is more black voter registration than at any time since the Voting Rights Act was passed...
...mixed feelings. In general the JL format of Going to the Dance-relatively brief, tightly focused pieces on specific works or companies- is adequate, but Robbins trails through the book like a wraith. One gets only pieces of a critique: that his masterpieces are Afternoon of a Faun and Dances at a Gathering, that he is often too clever by half, that he is good at finding the moves that enhance young dancers. One finishes the book feeling the need of a real assessment of Robbins partly because he draws such strong, quirky reactions from...