Word: fauns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...