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Word: faune (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...season. Tall, dark, magnetic, he gave careful, rhythmic reading to Bach's Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue; continued with Brahms's First Symphony, in a full-throated interpretation; was clever, cacophonous, to suit Strauss's Don Juan; ended with his now familiar spellbinding performance of Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun. Again the city congratulated itself on the musicianly foresight and executive powers of Adella Prentiss Hughes, first U. S. woman organizer and manager of a symphonic orchestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ave | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...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

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECOND SYMPHONY CONCERT TO BE HELD IN SANDERS TONIGHT | 11/12/1925 | See Source »

...months ago, a tall, erect, blond, young man of severely military carriage and aristocratic mien, was invited to a garden party at one of the most sumptuous villas of which modern Rome can boast. There he was introduced to a slight, dark-eyed girl olive-skinned, graceful as a faun, warm with the lambent inner radiance of the Italian heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pout Royal | 9/28/1925 | See Source »

Berlenbach launched a one-two punch like the slow, alternate strokes of a freight locomotive's pistons. Slattery danced out; he lifted his hands from his sides to flick the sultry visage of his opponent; he mocked and mowed, smiling his smile of a derisive faun; his body flashed with spite. Berlenbach lowered his head. When struck, he shook it from side to side-a bull perplexed by dragonflies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Berlenbach vs. Slattery | 9/21/1925 | See Source »

...line as well as for clean modeling and Velasquez-like depths of air. Also among the 34 plates are some very fair reproductions of oils unfamiliar to most U. S. enthusiasts-the leer-eyed Gypsies on the Hill of Howth; two allegories that only a slant-headed little faun from the hills could have painted-Sewing New Seed and A Western Wedding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: Hill Faun | 7/27/1925 | See Source »

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