Daphnis and Chloe
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two lovers in pastoral literature, especially in a Greek romance attributed to Longus.
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(italics) a ballet (1912) with music by Maurice Ravel and scenario and choreography by Michel Fokine.
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(italics) either of two orchestral suites by Ravel based on the music of this ballet.
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Pinchas Zukerman The violinist joins Pacific Symphony for Mozart's 3rd Violin Concerto; program also includes Ravel's "Daphnis and Chloe" Suite No. 2, and a multimedia-enhanced presentation of Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition."
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 11, 2018
One phrase in Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe should float into the air "like smoke"; in another, he whispered, "La nuit . . . you sleep, a tiny bit of sun comes through."
From Time Magazine Archive
It was music made for beauty's sake, music suggested by the old Greek legend of Daphnis and Chloe, a shepherd and a shepherdess who grew up together and loved inevitably.
From Time Magazine Archive
His Daphnis and Chloe was simply wrought, unobtrusively lovely in the way the alto flute introduced the shepherds, then let the cellos and the violins carry them through the ecstasy of the love idyll.
From Time Magazine Archive
And because of his feeling he went on with Daphnis and Chloe.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
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