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...popular, overplayed works which most often reveal the real character of a conductor. Leinsdorf's accounts of the Meistersinger Prelude, the Prelude to an Afternoon of a Faun, and Till Eulenspiegel, all preceding the Brahms, only further confirmed the painful facelessness of his style. Behind his strange podium histrionics and overliterate interpretations lies a dominant inability (or worse, an unwillingness) to truly communicate with his musicians. Amid this pedestrianism, most of Till's grotesque humor was lost, along with the overt charm of the Debussy Prelude. Season after season of such readings serve only to dull the sensibilities of entire...
...collection proves, Faulkner was particularly busy from 1950 onward. Far from being a recluse, he reported on the Kentucky Derby for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, wrote on a variety of subjects for other magazines, and took a lively interest in public affairs. But just as his recently republished verse, The Marble Faun and A Green Bough (TIME, Nov. 26), showed that he was not much of a poet, this collection indicates that he possessed woefully uneven talents as a speaker, essayist and letter writer...
...MARBLE FAUN AND A GREEN BOUGH by William Faulkner. 118 pages. Random House...
Great men sometimes have idiot children. Novelist William Faulkner, for instance, produced two volumes of verse. Republished under one cover after being out of print for several decades, they made an arrestingly gruesome twosome. The Marble Faun, written when Faulkner was 21, is a dollop of schoolboyish Shelley-shallying in which Pan and Philomel pipe and warble, and every other word is ah or ye or 'neath or hark. A Green Bough, published when he was 36 and should have known better, seems on the contrary the work of a village Eliot...
...child, she began dancing at age six on the ad vice of her doctor, went on to tour with Jerome Robbins' Ballets: U.S.A. before joining the New York City Ballet two years ago. She has danced leading roles only eight times, but memorably, especially in Afternoon of a Faun, a ballet perfectly attuned to her feathery, sweetly feminine style...