Word: faune
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...getting around to the swirling softness of French musical impressionism. There are no mists in Solti's Debussy. The sky is clear blue over his La Mer, but how shimmering those eddies of string tone, how thundering the waves of brass. Afternoon of a Faun may just be the most sensual on records...
...Critic Malcolm Cowley's copy of Gatsby was knocked down at $1,000, and his copy of Tender Is the Night, inscribed by the author, went for $3,200. Dozens of other major and minor writers of the 1920s were similarly appreciated. William Faulkner's The Marble Faun-well preserved and signed -brought $6,250; William Carlos Williams' scarce first book Poems went for $16,000. When the hammer sounded for Ezra Pound's privately printed A Lume Spento, the winning bid was $18,000-the most ever paid for a modern American first edition...
...Summer Dance Film Series, which begins tonight at Agassiz House, is another special treat for local moviegoers, especially ones who have any sort of interest in classical ballet. This evening's showing is a triple feature, high-lighted by a film-record of Nijinsky performing "Afternoon of a Faun;" simply incomparable. Movies of ballet tend to get a little boring and admittedly nothing can match the excitement of an original performance, but like Keaton, performers of Nijinsky's brilliance are too good to lose to passing time. Admission to the three films, which begin at 8, is 50 cents...
...looked a bit like a beige and sepia training school for the New York City Ballet. A trifle raw and stiff, Mitchell's young dancers nevertheless brought to the stage a springlike vitality and joy very much their own. Their version of Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, a staple of the City Ballet Repertory, did not have the studied, languid ease customarily provided by Balanchine's company, but it did project an affecting awkwardness and feeling entirely appropriate to a story about young dancers. Especially entrancing as the girl who stirs a narcissistic ballet student (Clover...
...Love she was the feminine soul brought beyond the melting point. Here again she writhes in agonies of longing, but her yowling and rug scratching are more reminiscent of feline heat than feminine misery. As for the composer. Chamberlain has the appearance and emotional range of an Aubrey Beardsley faun. After he gambols through the woods, one expects to find tiny cloven hoofprints...