#l'apres-midi d'un faune

[pantalon-et-colombine]

Programme officiel des ballets et opéras russes de Serge de Diaghilew : Théâtre national de l'Opéra, quinzième saison russe, mai-juin 1922 : [soirée du 18 mai 1922]

Opéra national de Paris

Monographie imprimée

Carnaval : ballet pantomime en 1 acte Chorégraphie de Michel Fokine Paris : Théâtre national de l'Opéra 04-06-1910

Le mariage de la belle au bois dormant Chorégraphie de Marius Petipa Réglée par Nicolas Sergeev et complétée par Bronislava Nijinska Paris : Théâtre national de l'Opéra 18-05-1922

Renard : ballet burlesque avec chant d'après des contes populaires russes Chorégraphie de Bronislava Nijinska Paris : Opéra de Paris-Palais Garnier 18-05-1922

Danses polovtsiennes du Prince Igor Chorégraphie de Michel Fokine Paris : Théâtre national de l'Opéra 07-06-1910

[beanie-on-a-string]

i get gender envy from the weirdest stuff, and when i say the weirdest stuff i mean the faun from the neumeier ballet nijinsky

[pangurlban]

Leonard Berstein

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Claude Debussy

Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun

[journalistnadeemblog]

Music and Poetry, a Timeless Relationship!

The relationship between music and poetry is so strong that has survived the ages. It has been challenged, questioned, scrutinized but is still alive today to prove that some bonds are hard to break.

While each is an autonomous form of art, music, and poetry work well together. Yes, there's a close connection between many forms of art – dancing, painting, performing, architecture, sculpture. They are all forms of expression. But there's something unique that connects poetry and music, and the interesting part is that it does so for centuries.

Music has been part of all societies around the globe to what it seems to be the beginning of time. It is believed that music was originated in Africa by tribes that used various materials to create what we know today as instruments to produce sounds. It became an essential part of every culture and influenced by it and all aspects of life – religion, climate, economic and social factors, customs. Poetry, as a form of rhythmic language that intends to evoke meaning, was known before written texts and was used to remember laws, family history, events. To remember and not forget, some phrases were repeated. The tone of voice was rhythmic. It is, perhaps, then when poetry and music met. The Greek rhapsodies, the Japanese tanka, the Chinese Shijing are all typical examples of sung poems. Eventually, the forms and genres of poetry broadened and while used for different purposes and were of various lengths, they all included some rhythm – epics, hymns, psalms, elegies, hadiths, suras.

The strong bond between poetry and music is clearer when the two forms of art are seen independently. Each of them can stand alone but also get inspired by the other. It is obvious that there are many forms of music as there are many forms of poetry. And they cannot always co-exist. Take “The Cubist Break-up” by E.E. Cummings, for example. Could it ever have a melody attached to it? Not all poems can blend with music.

Then again, we must make a distinction here. The lyrics of a song can be beautiful enough and structured in such a way as to be considered a poem. But not all lyrics are poems. And so, our main concern is to see how a poem, which was not meant to be sung, blended with music so nicely as to become popular.

That's a very crucial point to the history of the relationship between poetry and music. Poems, which would have gone unnoticed, have been loved by people when they became songs. In Greece, the poem “Arnisi” written by Nobel laureate and one of the biggest Greek poets, Giorgos Seferis, became extremely popular when it was composed by Mikis Theodorakis. It is said that T.S. Eliot wrote “The Wasteland” inspired by Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring. And that Claude Debussy's Prelude a l'Apres-midi d'un faune was inspired by Stephane Mallarme's “Afternoon of a Faun.” And that Maurice Ravel composed the Trois Poemes de Mallarme, based on the poems by Mallarme.

[cosmicretreat]

Claude Debussy premiered his symphonic work "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" ("Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune") in Paris on December 22, 1894.

[brookston]

Holidays 12.22

Holidays

Abilities Day

Armed Forces Day (Vietnam)

Be A Lover of Silence Day

Brussels Calling Day (Belgium)

Capricorn zodiac sign begins

Chipmunks Day

Christmas Eve Eve Eve

Christmas Tree Lights Day

Coal Day (French Republic)

Diplomatic Service Day (Ukraine)

Dongzhi Festival (China)

Flag Day (Proclamation of the Flag; Quebec)

Forefather's Day (Plymouth, Massachusetts) [Unless Sunday, then next Monday]

Freedom Day (on “Futurama”)

Hari Ibu (Mother’s Day; Indonesia)

Home Alone Day

Horn & Hardart Day

International Arbor Day

International Don’t Text & Drive Day

International Festival of the Sahara begins (Tunisia)

International Sound Engineers Day

Kagyed Dance (Sikkim, India)

Kayin New Year (Myanmar)

Mother’s Day (a.k.a. Hard Ibu; Indonesia)

National Ashton Day

National Be Safe, Be Seen Day (Ireland)

National Betty Day

National Day of Working Women (Pakistan)

National Mathematics Day (India)

Power Engineer’s Day (Russia; Ukraine)

Santa Claus Flight Clearance Day

Sound Money Day

Teacher Appreciation Day (Cuba)

Thermometer Day

The 10 Days of Wanking begins [ website ]

Unity Day (Zimbabwe)

World Day of the Thermometer

Yuletide Lad #11 arrives (Gáttaþefur or Doorway-Sniffer; Iceland)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chocolate Orange Day (UK)

Defrost Your Turkey Day (UK)

National Cookie Exchange Day

National Date Nut Bread Day

4th Friday in December

Bakery Friday [4th Friday]

Independence Days

Democratic Union of British States (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Caeruleus (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Nepal (Declared; 1768)

Feast Days

Anastasia of Sirmium (Orthodox Church)

Berzelius (Positivist; Saint)

Bootsy Collins Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Capricorn zodiac sign begins (Astrology)

Cyril and Methodius (Christian; Confessors)

Day Sacred to the Lares (Ancient Roman Household Gods)

Eimhin (Christian; Saint)

Ernan, Son of Eogan (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Alvis (in “Sealab 2021”)

Frances Xavier Cabrini (Outside US; Christian; Saint)

Henry Budd (Episcopal Church USA)

Hunger (Christian; Saint)

Ischyrion (Christian; Saint)

Khoiak Ceremony for Raising the Djed Pillar (Osiris Festival; Ancient Egypt)

Lottie Moon (Episcopal Church USA)

Marc Polo Day (Pastafarian)

Masaccio (Artology)

O Rex Gentium (6th O Antiphon or Great Advent Antiphon; Christian) [O King of the Nations; 6 of 7]

Thomas Couture (Artology)

Wolfgang the Seal (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 24 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [24 of 24]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [51 of 53]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [60 of 60]

Premieres

Always (Film; 1989)

Avatar 5 (Film; 2031)

Born on the Fourth of July (Film; 1989)

Cast Away (Film; 2000)

Darkest Hour (Film; 2017)

Dirty Harry (Film; 1971)

Doctor Zhivago (Film; 1965)

The Enforcer (Film; 1976)

Flying Down to Rio (Film; 1933)

Goldfinger (US Film; 1964) [James Bond #3]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Film; 1978)

The King’s Man (Film; 2021)

Lady Liberty (Film; 1971)

A Man for All Seasons (Film; 1966)

The Matrix Resurrections (Film; 2021)

Meet the Fockers (Film; 2004)

Miss Congeniality (Film; 2000)

The Mummy (Film; 1932)

My Neighbors the Yamaha’s (Anime Film; 2000)

Night at the Museum (Film; 2006)

O Brother Where Art Thou (Film; 2000)

Passengers (Film; 2016)

Philadelphia (Film; 1993)

The Pilgrim’s Progress (Novel; 1678)

Pitch Perfect 3 (Film; 2017)

The Point, by Harry Nilsson (UK Musical Play; 1978)

The Post (Film; 2017)

Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faun, by Claude Debussy (Orchestral Work; 1894)

The Prize Pest (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

Rebel Moon (Film; 2023)

Roger & Me (Documentary Film; 1989)

Stand by Me (Disney Cartoon; 1995)

Suddenly, Last Summer (Film; 1959)

Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Symphony; 1808)

Symphony No. 6, “The Pastoral,” by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Symphony; 1808)

Thirteen Days (Film; 2000)

True Grit (Film; 2010)

Watershed Down (BBC Mini-Series; 2018)

The West Point Story (Film; 1950)

Wiegenlied (a.k.a. Brahms’ Lullaby), by Johannes Brahms (Lied; 1869)

Today’s Name Days

Jutta (Austria)

Časlav, Flavijan, Honorat, Toma (Croatia)

Šimon (Czech Republic)

Japetus (Denmark)

Vambo, Vambola (Estonia)

Raafael (Finland)

Françoise-Xavière, Gratien (France)

Francesca, Jutta (Germany)

Anastasia, Natasa, Zoilos (Greece)

Zénó (Hungary)

Flaviano, Francesca (Italy)

Donalds, Donis, Saulvedis (Latvia)

Dovilė, Gedvydas, Ksavera, Zenonas (Lithuania)

Ingar, Ingemar (Norway)

Beata, Drogomir, Flawian, Franciszka, Gryzelda, Honorata, Ksawera, Ksaweryna, Zenon, Zenona (Poland)

Petru (Romania)

Anna (Russia)

Adela (Slovakia)

Demetrio, Francisca (Spain)

Jonatan, Natanael (Sweden)

Anastasia, Stasia (Ukraine)

Asta, Astrid, Trista, Tristan, Tristen, Tristin, Triston (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 356 of 2024; 9 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 51 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 10 (Jia-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 10 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 9 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 26 Zima; Fiveday [26 of 30]

Julian: 9 December 2023

Moon: 81%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 20 Bichat (13th Month) [Berzelius]

Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 2 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 1 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Capricorn (The Goat) begins [Zodiac Sign 10; thru 1.19]

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 12.22

Holidays

Abilities Day

Armed Forces Day (Vietnam)

Be A Lover of Silence Day

Brussels Calling Day (Belgium)

Capricorn zodiac sign begins

Chipmunks Day

Christmas Eve Eve Eve

Christmas Tree Lights Day

Coal Day (French Republic)

Diplomatic Service Day (Ukraine)

Dongzhi Festival (China)

Flag Day (Proclamation of the Flag; Quebec)

Forefather's Day (Plymouth, Massachusetts) [Unless Sunday, then next Monday]

Freedom Day (on “Futurama”)

Hari Ibu (Mother’s Day; Indonesia)

Home Alone Day

Horn & Hardart Day

International Arbor Day

International Don’t Text & Drive Day

International Festival of the Sahara begins (Tunisia)

International Sound Engineers Day

Kagyed Dance (Sikkim, India)

Kayin New Year (Myanmar)

Mother’s Day (a.k.a. Hard Ibu; Indonesia)

National Ashton Day

National Be Safe, Be Seen Day (Ireland)

National Betty Day

National Day of Working Women (Pakistan)

National Mathematics Day (India)

Power Engineer’s Day (Russia; Ukraine)

Santa Claus Flight Clearance Day

Sound Money Day

Teacher Appreciation Day (Cuba)

Thermometer Day

The 10 Days of Wanking begins [ website ]

Unity Day (Zimbabwe)

World Day of the Thermometer

Yuletide Lad #11 arrives (Gáttaþefur or Doorway-Sniffer; Iceland)

Food & Drink Celebrations

Chocolate Orange Day (UK)

Defrost Your Turkey Day (UK)

National Cookie Exchange Day

National Date Nut Bread Day

4th Friday in December

Bakery Friday [4th Friday]

Independence Days

Democratic Union of British States (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Caeruleus (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Kingdom of Nepal (Declared; 1768)

Feast Days

Anastasia of Sirmium (Orthodox Church)

Berzelius (Positivist; Saint)

Bootsy Collins Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Capricorn zodiac sign begins (Astrology)

Cyril and Methodius (Christian; Confessors)

Day Sacred to the Lares (Ancient Roman Household Gods)

Eimhin (Christian; Saint)

Ernan, Son of Eogan (Christian; Saint)

Feast of Alvis (in “Sealab 2021”)

Frances Xavier Cabrini (Outside US; Christian; Saint)

Henry Budd (Episcopal Church USA)

Hunger (Christian; Saint)

Ischyrion (Christian; Saint)

Khoiak Ceremony for Raising the Djed Pillar (Osiris Festival; Ancient Egypt)

Lottie Moon (Episcopal Church USA)

Marc Polo Day (Pastafarian)

Masaccio (Artology)

O Rex Gentium (6th O Antiphon or Great Advent Antiphon; Christian) [O King of the Nations; 6 of 7]

Thomas Couture (Artology)

Wolfgang the Seal (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 24 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [24 of 24]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [51 of 53]

Tomobiki (友引 Japan) [Good luck all day, except at noon.]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [60 of 60]

Premieres

Always (Film; 1989)

Avatar 5 (Film; 2031)

Born on the Fourth of July (Film; 1989)

Cast Away (Film; 2000)

Darkest Hour (Film; 2017)

Dirty Harry (Film; 1971)

Doctor Zhivago (Film; 1965)

The Enforcer (Film; 1976)

Flying Down to Rio (Film; 1933)

Goldfinger (US Film; 1964) [James Bond #3]

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Film; 1978)

The King’s Man (Film; 2021)

Lady Liberty (Film; 1971)

A Man for All Seasons (Film; 1966)

The Matrix Resurrections (Film; 2021)

Meet the Fockers (Film; 2004)

Miss Congeniality (Film; 2000)

The Mummy (Film; 1932)

My Neighbors the Yamaha’s (Anime Film; 2000)

Night at the Museum (Film; 2006)

O Brother Where Art Thou (Film; 2000)

Passengers (Film; 2016)

Philadelphia (Film; 1993)

The Pilgrim’s Progress (Novel; 1678)

Pitch Perfect 3 (Film; 2017)

The Point, by Harry Nilsson (UK Musical Play; 1978)

The Post (Film; 2017)

Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faun, by Claude Debussy (Orchestral Work; 1894)

The Prize Pest (WB LT Cartoon; 1951)

Rebel Moon (Film; 2023)

Roger & Me (Documentary Film; 1989)

Stand by Me (Disney Cartoon; 1995)

Suddenly, Last Summer (Film; 1959)

Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Symphony; 1808)

Symphony No. 6, “The Pastoral,” by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Symphony; 1808)

Thirteen Days (Film; 2000)

True Grit (Film; 2010)

Watershed Down (BBC Mini-Series; 2018)

The West Point Story (Film; 1950)

Wiegenlied (a.k.a. Brahms’ Lullaby), by Johannes Brahms (Lied; 1869)

Today’s Name Days

Jutta (Austria)

Časlav, Flavijan, Honorat, Toma (Croatia)

Šimon (Czech Republic)

Japetus (Denmark)

Vambo, Vambola (Estonia)

Raafael (Finland)

Françoise-Xavière, Gratien (France)

Francesca, Jutta (Germany)

Anastasia, Natasa, Zoilos (Greece)

Zénó (Hungary)

Flaviano, Francesca (Italy)

Donalds, Donis, Saulvedis (Latvia)

Dovilė, Gedvydas, Ksavera, Zenonas (Lithuania)

Ingar, Ingemar (Norway)

Beata, Drogomir, Flawian, Franciszka, Gryzelda, Honorata, Ksawera, Ksaweryna, Zenon, Zenona (Poland)

Petru (Romania)

Anna (Russia)

Adela (Slovakia)

Demetrio, Francisca (Spain)

Jonatan, Natanael (Sweden)

Anastasia, Stasia (Ukraine)

Asta, Astrid, Trista, Tristan, Tristen, Tristin, Triston (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 356 of 2024; 9 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 5 of week 51 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 12 (Jia-Zi), Day 10 (Jia-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 10 Teveth 5784

Islamic: 9 Jumada II 1445

J Cal: 26 Zima; Fiveday [26 of 30]

Julian: 9 December 2023

Moon: 81%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 20 Bichat (13th Month) [Berzelius]

Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 12 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 2 of 89)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 1 of 31)

Calendar Changes

Capricorn (The Goat) begins [Zodiac Sign 10; thru 1.19]

[dance-world]

Jacques D'Amboise and Tanaquil Le Clercq in “The Afternoon of a Fawn” - performed in Paris New York City Ballet - June 1955 - photo by Serge Lido

[pantalon-et-colombine]

Casino de Monte-Carlo, nouvelle salle de musique, représentations de Ballets russes... : programme de la soirée du 18 mars 1925

Casino de Monte-Carlo (Monaco). Nouvelle salle de musique.

Monographie imprimée

Carnaval : ballet en 1 acte Chorégraphie de Michel Fokine Monaco : Casino de Monte-Carlo. Nouvelle salle de musique 18-03-1925

L'après-midi d'un faune : poème chorégraphique Chorégraphie de Vaclav Nijinsky Monaco : Casino de Monte-Carlo. Nouvelle salle de musique 18-03-1925

[strechanadi]

Paris Opera Ballet 21/22 season

Play by Alexander Ekman 28/09 - 06/11

Le Rouge et le Noir by Pierre Lacotte, world premiere 15/10 - 04/11

Ashton/Eyal/Nijinsky (Rhapsody, L’apres midi d’un faune - world premiere, Le sacre du printemps) 29/11 - 02/01

Don Quijote by Rudolf Nureyev 09/12 - 02/01

Body and Soul by Crystal Pite 30/01 - 20/02

Hofesh Shechter (Uprising, In your rooms) 14/03 - 03/04

La Bayadere by Rudolf Nureyev 02/04 - 06/05

Mats Ek (Carmen, Another Place, B/olero) 06/05 - 05/06

Midsummer Night’s Dream by George Balanchine 18/06 - 16/07

Giselle by Patrice Bart and Eugene Polyakov 25/06 - 16/07

I like it. I like it a lot.

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 64: Assorted Other Performances IV

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct grouping.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration.

I know a lot of people wanted to know why I chose L'apres Midi d'un Faune instead of Printemps on the first poll. Honestly I'd want to see both, but it was the Rudolf Nureyev's Faune tween me fell in love with when it was newly filmed. Rite of Spring didn't speak to me until I was a little older. It was arbitrary, and Printemps was always going to end up on a later poll. The enthusiasm for it was heart warming.

** London After Midnight is particularly lamented lost media so it gets it's own slot.

*** These are: Mily Balakirev, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Borodin. They did not fit in the slot.

[ddewott]

actually fuck classic fm learn to play more than one playlist PLEASE

[aschenblumen]

El imperativo de llevar el apetito al sueño.

Cf. Anne Carson, 2014: «Albertine, igual que Ofelia, está condenada por un apetito sexual cuya expresión se le niega. Ofelia lleva su apetito sexual al río y lo ahoga entre plantas acuáticas. Albertine distorsiona el suyo en la falsa conciencia de una planta del sueño.»

[zoeflake]

Claude Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

[frangvski]

ballet for furries

felt like drawing my 🅱️oi nijinsky in l'apres midi d'un faune cuz why not

[sigmastolen]

Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (L. 86) | Claude Debussy

Boston Symphony Orchestra; Leonard Bernstein