Word: faune
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...Kinkaid's importance to the orchestra is so great that both Eugene Ormandy and his predecessor, Leopold Stokowski, refused to record flute solos without him; Stokie once had him freeze a diseased appendix long enough to sit through a recording session of Afternoon of a Faun...
...Spoleto Festival. Included last week were N.Y. Export, Op. Jazz, a deadpan exercise in which knees break, shoulders shrug in a serpentine evocation of youthful loneliness; The Concert, Robbins' acidulous spoof of the classical ballet; Moves, an abstract ballet without musical accompaniment; and Afternoon of a Faun, Robbins' coolly lyrical dissection of Debussy...
Life-loving Milles could not resist adding grace notes of Puckish humor to the attendant figures, two angels and a faun. To visitors who came to see the all-but-complete figures in the studio, Milles did his tongue-in-cheek best to explain away the oddities: "Why is there an angel playing the flute? Horses love music, didn't you know? Why did I put the angel on one side? Don't you think God sends his people down to see what we are doing? The other angel has a wristwatch; I don't know...
...ballet about sailors on shore leave. When it opened, Fancy Free (later blown up into the smash musical On the Town) became one of the greatest ballet hits in history. After that Jerry almost always had a hit. His serious ballets (Age of Anxiety, The Cage, Afternoon of a Faun) are untarnished by time, and his dance interludes for musical shows-notably the monumental madness of the Mack Sennett sequence in High Button Shoes-revitalized Broadway ballet...
Cool Depths. Choreographer Robbins brought four ballets to Spoleto: Todd Bolender's Games, plus his own New York Export-Opus Jazz, Afternoon of a Faun and The Concert. In this quartet, Jazz-which Robbins regards as "my most important ballet in a long time"-was the only wholly new work. Set to a jazz-flavored score by Manhattan-born Composer Robert Prince, it offered a back-alley view of the "postures, attitudes and rhythms" of the teen-agers who run and "rumble" on U.S. city streets...