Word: fausts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon as churchgoing ears become educated enough to recognize irreligious music when they hear it, "pieces like the popular setting of The Lord's Prayer, a ballad as voluptuous as anything in Faust, will cease to be bestsellers; organists will cease to play as voluntaries pieces that would do very well as background for Hollywood erotica." Purist Gore's plea: "0 sing unto the Lord a new song...
...church production of Ruth and Naomi (when the lad assigned the basso-profundo role of Boaz failed to show up, Louise sang that role, too). Dependable and even-tempered in an atmosphere that earned "prima donna" its popular meaning, Presbyterian-born Mrs. Homer once balked at a role: in Faust the Met wanted her to wear tights...
...campus Karl Marx society. At the first meeting, the 25 Marxist petitioners were delighted by a turnout of 150. But when it came time for elections, a solid wedge of the new recruits-conservatives from the School of Business Administration-put up their own slate. Explained new President Elmer Faust: "We Business Administration students are very interested in Marxism...
Jerome Robbins' Pas de Trois, a posturing satire on classical ballet done to Berlioz' thundering Damnation of Faust. In it two men and a ballerina maneuver to upstage each other; one mugs shamelessly, another surreptitiously corrects a pose, or looks bewildered and terrified when he can't remember what he is expected to do next. Good clean fun, and skillfully done, it is also a symptom of ballet's present introversion. Pas de Trois was postponed twice because of Ballerina Alicia Markova's illness, was finally put on without her. Critics found her substitute, veteran...
...Samuel 26:20. † Fleas also have their cultural aspects. For centuries, they have been used as entertainers in flea circuses. In Goethe's Faust, Mephistopheles sings of "a king, A lovely queen had he-But dearer far than queen or son. He loved a big black flea. . . ." Upon this item Russian Composer Modest Petrovich Moussorgsky based his Song of the Flea...