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After the state dinner (guinea hen), the royal guests repaired to the East Room where a troupe of 15 dancers in sneakers, sweatshirts and black tights performed five Jerome Robbins modern jazz ballets and a modern version of Afternoon of a Faun, in the first full-scale ballet perform ance in White House history.- (The dancers had been hastily rehearsing all day, under the direction of choreographer Robbins and the approving eye of the First Lady, who graciously allowed them to use the Green Room as a temporary dressing room.) Glancing at one of the muscular male dancers. Vice President...
...necessarily human. They are, in fact, inspired refractions of the poet's entities, born of a fancy quite as wild as Will's. "Sweet Puck," for instance, Shakespeare's "knavish sprite," is imagined as a sort of naughty Ariel, a boy with the soul of a faun. "Jealous Oberon" is a grand abstraction of stag, noble and serious but indifferent, a thing of dells and vanishings. a silence of eyes, the spirit of the forest watching...
...Faun in Old Felt. In his 35 years in Africa, Ionides has lived for ten days on the partial contents of two ostrich eggs, been trampled by a charging elephant resulting in total deafness of one ear, climbed a 100-ft. tree, despite acrophobia, and with only one arm free, brought down a writhing mamba. He has been bitten by snakes half a dozen times, recorded his numbed sensations and degrees of pain with cool scientific exactitude, and never used antivenin. He has had an entire native village flogged for disobedience and has no qualms about flogging ("It is simple...
Clubs & Violins. Next day, with Bernstein still sick, Millar conducted the Schumann again, while on the same program Shapira took over Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture and Stanger led Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. All of them, the audience agreed, sounded first-rate. Said one Bernstein...
...JACK KENNEDY, a faithful Guest Conductor listener (whose father Joe, the family's No.11 music buff, listens to Beethoven records by the hour), detailed his choice in a long letter written by Wife Jackie: Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun, Ravel's La Valse, Berlioz' overture to Benvenuto Cellini, Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and dances from Borodin's Prince Igor...