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| | Afternoon of a Faun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The poem L'après-midi d'un faune by Stéphane Mallarmé. | | | The composition Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy, inspired by Mallarmé's poem. | | | The ballet L'après-midi d'un faune by Vaslav Nijinsky, which uses Debussy's music and was also inspired by Mallarmé. |
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| | Vaslav Nijinsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Leon Bakst - Nijinsky in the ballet L'après-midi d'un faune, 1912 | | | In 1913 the Ballets Russes toured South America, and because of his fear of ocean voyages Diaghilev did not accompany them. | | | His radical angular movements combined with heavy sexual overtones caused a riot in the Théâtre de Champs-Elysées when Le Sacre du Printemps was premiered in Paris. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Afternoon of a Faun |
| | L'Après-midi d'un Faune (or The Afternoon of a Faun) ( 1912), is a modern ballet choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky for the Ballets Russes, with Nijinsky himself dancing the Faun. | | | L'Apres-midi d'un Faune is considered as one of the first modern ballets and proved to be as controversial as Nijinsky's Jeux ( 1913) and Le Sacre du Printemps ( 1913). | | | Modernism in music is characterized by a desire for or belief in progress and science, surrealism, anti-romanticism, political advocacy, general intellectualism, and/or a breaking with tradition or common practice. |
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| | Notes on Prelude to L’ apres midi d’un faune (The Afternoon of a Faun) (1894) |
| | Afternoon was one of the early masterpieces that established Debussy as major composer. | | | Camille Saint-Saens said “[The Afternoon of a Faun] has a pretty sound, but there is not the least truly musical idea in it; it is no more a piece of music than the palette on which a painter has been working is a picture.” | | | The now-famous ballet that popularized Afternoon, choreographed by the Russian danseur Ninjinsky, was first performed in Paris 1912, with Ninjinsky as the Faun. |
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| | Classic Gala: Afternoon of a Faun |
| | Dancers at the premiere : Vaslaw Nijinsky (the faun), Lydia Nelidova (Leader of the Nymphs). | | | The Faun tilts back his head and bares his teeth in stylized laughter; then picks up the veil and contemplates it ecstatically in profile. | | | The fist six nymphs remain motionless until the lead nymph crosses the stage at a rapid mechanical walk, one arm across her breast, and undone a clasp on her shoulder to let fall her outer veils revealing a short golden undergarment. |
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| | Explicit Rites: 'The Afternoon of a Faun' and 'The Rite of Spring' |
| | In 1912, Nijinsky, with the Ballet Russe, performed The Afternoon of a Faun ( Prélude à L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune) and The Rite of Spring ( Le Sacre du Printemps) set to the music of Debussy and Stravinsky. | | | The Afternoon of a Faun and The Rite of Spring, dances by Nijinsky, music by Claude Debussy and Igor Stravinsky. | | | This new interpretation of Nijinsky's notorious The Afternoon of a Faun and The Rite of Spring premiered in Brisbane, Australia quite appropriately on the first day of spring, 1 September. |
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| | Miami City Ballet > News & Reviews |
| | Afternoon of a Faun is about a fleeting encounter between a young man absorbed by his reflection in the mirror and a woman who enters the studio and interrupts his reverie. | | | Edward Villella, Founding Artistic Director of Miami City Ballet inspired Afternoon of a Faun, as Robbins was moved to create this lovely pas de deux upon seeing Villella as a young student at the School of American Ballet stretching during ballet class. | | | In 1912 Vaslav Nijinsky presented his famous version of Afternoon of a Faun based on Claude Debussy’s music Prélude à l’Après-midi d’un Faune and a poem by Stephane Mallarme describing a faun’s encounter with nymphs. |
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| | Afternoon of a Faun |
| | It was not the first time that Walter dreamed of fucking in front of an audience, but it was the first time that he ever felt a small, sharp pebble digging into his knee in a dream. | | | The faun's pink tongue darted over his plush lips and he shivered as if in delighted expectation. | | | The faun chewed his mouthful with a thoughtful expression and then said, "It's better uncooked. |
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| | Mallarmé referred to the faun's syrinx as an "instrument des fuites" (translated as "elusive instrument"; literally, perhaps, "instrument of evasion"); with his novel rhythmic and harmonic language, Debussy managed to render that elusive/evasive quality of the faun's self-expression. | | | Thus he was thoroughly familiar with the poet's style before he began work on his prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun" in 1892. | | | As is well known, Debussy's work was inspired by an eclogue (pastoral poem) by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898), one of the greatest innovators in the history of French poetry, who published L'Après-midi d'un Faune ("The Afternoon of a Faun") in 1876. |
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| | Walt Disney Concert Hall - Piece Detail |
| | L'Après-midi d'un faune the poem, published in 1876, is, on the surface, a depiction of the sexual fantasies of a faun, but it is also a trip across the landscape of the unconscious, full of such mythological/archetypal images as nymphs, naiads, Syrinx, Etna, and Venus. | | | In 1865 the Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé wrote about trying to capture in verse the fleeting sensations of dreams and memory: "I have found an intimate and peculiar manner of depicting and setting down very fugitive impressions," he wrote. | | | The work begins with the famous flute solo, with its hovering, indefinite outline of a tritone. |
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| | faun - encyclopedia article about faun. |
| | (The 'Faun of Praxiteles', as Hawthorne describes it, is an imaginary sculpture loosely based on Praxiteles Praxiteles of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus, was the greatest of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC, who has left an imperishable mark on the history of art. | | | It has been maintained by some writers that there were two sculptors of the name, one, a contemporary of Pheidias, the other, his more celebrated grandson. | | | 'In truth, allowing for the difference of costume, and if a lion's skin could have been substituted for his modern talma, and a rustic pipe for his stick, Donatello might have figured perfectly as the marble Faun, miraculously softened into flesh and blood,' Hawthorne allows. |
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| | Dance Magazine: Revisiting Robbins's Faun. . - Kickoff - Afternoon of a Faun - dance review |
| | THE SUBJECT WAS AFTERNOON OF A FAUN, particularly two productions--the youthful Vaslav Nijinsky's 1912 ballet for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, and the 34-year-old Jerome Robbins's 1953 ballet for New York City Ballet. | | | Robbins's Afternoon of a Faun could be seen last season in productions by, among others, the Paris Opera Ballet, New York City Ballet, and Ballet West. | | | Robbins's most characteristic quality, perhaps, was his ability to focus on the central idea of a work; he explored characters, even in his more abstract ballets, and made you care what happened to them. |
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| | New York City Ballet Repertory and Dancers |
| | Although he did not write any symphonies or concerti, his operas, chamber music, orchestral works and large repertory of piano music were influenced by the painting and literature of his contemporaries. | | | Among his better known works are Clair de Lune, Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un Faune and the Children's Corner Suite. | | | During his most productive period, which spanned almost twenty years, he composed a major body of works ranging from short piano pieces and songs to the full-length opera Pélleas et Mélisande. |
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| | New York City Ballet - Kammermusik No. 2, Afternoon of a Faun, Sonatine, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet |
| | Afternoon of a Faun (1953): Music by Claude Debussy, Choreography by Jerome Robbins, Scenery and Lighting by Jean Rosenthal, Costumes by Irene Sharaff, Guest Conductor: George Cleve, Performed by Alexandra Ansanelli and Damian Woetzel. | | | Legris, on loan from Paris Opera Ballet, were guided to interpret this work as if they were euphoric with no relief. | | | This is hardly Nijinsky's Faun ( See Review of Nijinsky, Hamburg Ballet). |
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| | Australia Dancing - Late Afternoon of a Faun (1987 - ) |
| | Graeme Murphy's Late Afternoon of a Faun, with a cast consisting of Garth Welch, dancing as a guest artists with the company, Graeme Murphy, Stephen Page, Janet Vernon, Nina Veretennikova and Victoria Taylor, premiered in Sydney in 1987. | | | Gaica, Branco: Graeme Murphy in rehearsal for 'Late Afternoon of a Faun', Sydney Dance Company, 1987 | | | Gaica, Branco: Stephen Page in 'Late Afternoon of a Faun', Sydney Dance Company, 1987 |
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| | Back Stage: Afternoon of a Faun. (book reviews)@ HighBeam Research |
| | Although the first ballet that he created in 1912, L'Apres midi d'un Faun may have caused a lesser sensation that his second work Le Sacre du Printemps, his first ballet has been constantly maintained in ballet companies here and abroad. | | | On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vaslav Nijinsky, the book Afternoon Of A Faun was published in cooperation with the French Caisse Des Depots et Consignations, based... | | | Interest in both ballets has never been at a higher peak. |
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| | Local Schools to Star at the Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County's Saturday May 20 Arts Extravaganza-pARTy ... |
| | "Afternoon of a Faun" was choreographed by Vaslav Nijinsky to music by Claude Debussy; it has scenery and costumes by Leon Bakst and was reconstructed by Elizabeth Schooling and William Chappell. | | | The program concludes with The Joffrey’s reconstruction of Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky’s "Le Sacre du Printemps." After its 1913 premiere, one of the most notorious opening nights in history (a riot broke and the Ballet Russes could not finish the performance), the music became one of the great classics of 20 | | | Diaghilev Evening - "Parade," "Afternoon of a Faun," and famed reconstruction of "Le Sacre du Printemps" |
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| | Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun |
| | It was to have profound effects on the generation of composers that followed, farther-reaching than those produced by any single piece of French orchestral music up to that time. | | | I lived in a little furnished flat in the rue de Londres. | | | This music draws out the emotion of my poem and gives it a background of warmer colors.â And here are the lines Mallarmé wrote on a copy of L'Après-midi d'un faune which he sent me after the first performance: |
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| | Faun Resource Web Page |
| | After the Midnight of a FAUN by Apostolos with links to more of their work, e-Cards and more artists. | | | After the Midnight of a FAUN by Apostolos at The Hammond Gallery | | | - AK Berlin, Faun des Westens Tautentzierstraße 1926. |
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| | Michiana Symphony Orchestra Concert - February 24, 1991 |
| | Debussy described the piece: "It is really a sequence of mood painting, throughout which the desires and dreams of the faun move in the heat of the afternoon." Mallarmé, for his part, was delighted with the musical expression of his poem. | | | Prélude á l'après-midi d'un faune (Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun), one of only five works Debussy composed for orchestra, stands as a landmark of orchestral composition of the 20th century. | | | Intended to be performed as incidental music to accompany the reading or dramatic presentation of the poem, the mood is set with a solo flute representing the dream of the faun. |
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| | AFTERNOON OF A FAUN |
| | It was inspired by a poem of Mallarme's which was begun in 1876. | | | In 1912 Nijinsky presented his famous ballet, drawing his ideas from many sources, including Greek sculpture and painting. | | | Debussy's music, Prelude a l'Après-midi d'un Faune, was composed between 1892 and 1894. |
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| | Dance Videos |
| | Program 6: "Ballet Comes to Britain." Includes excerpts of Afternoon of a Faun, by Nijinsky, Vaslav, with Ballet Rambert; Boutique Fantasque cancan duet, by Massine, Leonide (1919); Les Biches solo, by Nijinska, Bronislava (1924); The Rake's Progress, by de Valois, Nanette (1935) (26 min., 1970). | | | Includes Petrouchka, by Fokine, Michel; Les Noces, by Nijinska, Bronislava; Le Spectre de la Rose, by Fokine, Michel; and Afternoon of a Faun, by Nijinsky, Vaslav. | | | "Tribute to Nijinsky." Petrouchka; La Spectre de le Rose; Afternoon of a Faune. |
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| | Seattle Composers Alliance - Score Salon: Tim Huling on Debussy's "Prelude to 'The Afternoon of a Faun'" |
| | Composer Tim Huling moderated a discussion on Claude Debussy's Prelude to "The Afternoon of a Faun." A programmatic piece based on Stephane Mallarme's erotic poem, Debussy's landmark 1894 orchestral work - with its rich harmonies predating jazz, inventive instrumental colorization, and seemingly static thematic development - all but ushered in the 20th century. | | | Capitol Music Center is the official sponsor of the SCA Monthly Score Salon. | | | Seattle Composers Alliance - Score Salon: Tim Huling on Debussy's "Prelude to 'The Afternoon of a Faun'" |
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| | Program Notes for October 23, 2004 |
| | The later years of the 19th Century and the first years of the 20th saw Paris at the center of a cultural swap-meet in which the arts strove to break all boundaries. | | | His choreography, though lurid, is highly stylized and geometricized, in an allusion to Greek pottery design. | | | In 1913, Parisian listeners were still adjusting to the music of the Impressionists, like Debussy's “Prelude to ‘The Afternoon of a Faun,’”; when upon their ears was thrust Stravinsky’s attack of modernity. |
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| | San Francisco Bach Choir: Claude Debussy |
| | He is best known for the tone poem Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (1894), inspired by a poem of Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898). | | | He employed the whole-tone scale to create nuances of mood and expression, exploring unusual harmonies and dissonances. |
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| | Afternoon of a Faun: Debussy VHS Clearvue/EAV |
| | Description: Claude Monet's magnificent paintings and Picasso's drawing of a faun convey the mood of Debussy's composition and portray the woodlands and fields where the faun relives his dream. | | | Afternoon of a Faun: Debussy (N/A) Be the first person to review this film ! | | | If you would like your photo to be featured here, contact us. |
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| | Debussy's Afernoon of a Faun |
| | Debussy has a strong sense of metaphor in the this work. | | | This work is based on a poem about a faun, or a creature in ancient Greek mythology (half goat, half man). | | | The second part is the faun chasing the nymphs through the fields, which depicts the erotic B section (mm 31). |
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| | Elusive Disc-DEBUSSY/PRELUDE TO THE AFTERNOON OF A FAUN 2-CH/M-CH SACD |
| | As composer-conductor Pierre Boulez explains, the opening flute of Faun “brought new breath to the art of music; what was overthrown was not so much the art of development as the very concept of form itself, here freed from impersonal constraints, giving wings to a supple, mobile expressiveness, demanding a technique of perfect instantaneous adequacy. | | | Debussy’s idea was to write not a programmatic piece but rather a musical equivalent of the mysterious world of Mallarmé’s poem “Afternoon of a Faun.” He rose to the challenge of creating this unprecedented world of sounds and colors. | | | Paavo Järvi leads the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra through an exquisite Telarc recording of several of Debussy’s more well-known works: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Nocturnes, La Mer and the seldom recorded Berceuse Héroïque. |
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| | French culture news Highlights 2002: Dance, Theater and Circus |
| | Led by choreographer and artistic director Thierry Malandain, the show will include enchanting works like Hommage aux Ballets Russes, Le spectre de la rose (Von Weber), The Afternoon of a Faun (Debussy), Pulcinella (Stravinsky) as well as Boléro (Ravel). | | | New York will also host several outstanding theater pieces in 2002. |
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| | Debussy_PreludeFaun |
| | Nijinsky choreographed and danced Debussy's Prélude à l'aprés -midi d'un faune for Serge Diaghalev's Ballet Russes in 1912 | | | Faun: half man/half goat, "Did I love a dream?" | | | Music: transformations of opening Faun theme/motive: see mm. |
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| | L'Envoi (län`vwä´): Prelude to the Afternoon of Furniture Music |
| | If you'd like Deodato's jazz arrangement of Claude's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun," drop me a note. | | | L'Envoi (län`vwä´): Prelude to the Afternoon of Furniture Music | | | I'm listening to Debussy's "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun", but it's a pity that I haven't heard Deodato's jazz one. |
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| | Claude Debussy - Afternoon Of A Faun, similar: Julio Jaramillo, Maurice Ravel, Gabriel Fauré, Johannes Brahms, Nocturnes, Louis Armstrong and The Hot Five, Franz Schubert, Hans Werner Henze, Béla Bartók, The Emerald Down, People Are Wrong!, Erik Satie, Frédéric Chopin, miffy, Arnold Schönberg, Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Liszt, Aldo Ciccolini, Sofia Gubaidulina, AntonÃn DvoÅák, | | | Claude Debussy - Afternoon Of A Faun Track on Last.FM - Your personal music network - Personalised online radio station | | | Sorry, but a Javascript-enabled browser is required to email me. |
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| | Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music |
| | This first-rate collection has no weak links at all: Karajan's La Mer, Tilson Thomas' Boston Symphony recording of Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, Richter's Estampes, the Britten/Rostropovich Cello Sonata, and of course Michelangeli's Preludes, Book 1 all stand at the top of their respective heaps as reference editions of the pieces in question. | | | La Mer; Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Syrinx; String Quartet; Nocturnes; Estampes; Preludes, Book 1; Cello Sonata | | | Joining this elite company, Abbado's Nocturnes offer a Boston Symphony in top form allied to gorgeously atmospheric recording. |
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