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	Swan song - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A swan song is a reference to an ancient and false belief that the Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) is completely mute during its lifespan, but may sing one heartbreakingly beautiful song just before it dies.
		Tennyson's poem "The Dying Swan" is a poetic evocation of the beauty of the supposed song and so full of detail as to imply that he had actually heard it:
		It generally carries the connotation that the performer is aware of his or her imminent demise (or retirement) and is expending his or her last breath on one magnificent final effort.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Swan_song (355 words)

	Courtly Lives - Swans in Heraldry and Lore
		The swan was a rarity in Meditteranean regions.
		In alchemy the swan is associated with the element of mercury, because of its volatility.
		In the Middle Ages the swan was said to be white on the outside with fl skin, thus thought to be a symbol of duplicity and hypocrites.
	www.angelfire.com /mi4/polcrt/Swan.html (459 words)

	On "No Swan So Fine"
		This swan appeals to Marianne Moore with its delicacy, elegance, and perfection; it appeals more than a live swan with "gondoliering legs." Yet, attractive as it is to her, she must admit that it is dead; it represents, more than a way of life, a royal fatality.
		The china swan is the object on which the poet focuses thought, operating in a dialectic rather than in a route to a definite conclusion.
		However, while Moore presents a dying Versailles to be mourned, she also plants the seeds for the next stanza: part of what is to be mourned is the swan's captivity.
	www.english.uiuc.edu /maps/poets/m_r/moore/swan.htm (4180 words)

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	www.ballet.co.uk /cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=printer_format&om=4507&forum=happening (5156 words)

	The Mute Swan - Sylvia Roff-Marsh
		We are all familiar with the graceful S curve of the swan's neck as she dips her head beneath the water or curves it to the side to survey a cygnet riding on her back or snuggled in the warmth of her wing feathers.
		Unmarked swans remain the property of the Crown, hence the 'Royal Swans of the Thames'.
		Swans that graced the moat were fed at a place convenient to the feeders, where the water ran close beside the walls.
	www.tintota.com /archive/muteswan.htm (669 words)

	Ladywildlife's Trumpeter Swan Page
		The trumpeter swan is a close relative and North American counterpart of the Eurasian whooper swan.
		The swan pecks at bankside and water vegetation as it swims by.
		Swans are wasteful feeders, often uprooting whole plants for the sake of a few leaves.
	ladywildlife.com /animal/trumpeterswan.html (863 words)

	Heroine Worship: Anna Pavlova, The Swan
		Pavlova was already an acclaimed ballerina when, in 1905, Michel Fokine choreographed "The Dying Swan" for her to music by Saint-Saens; it became her personal emblem.
		"The Dying Swan" is not about a woman impersonating a bird, it's about the fragility of life - all life - and the passion with which we hold on to it.
		Dying, she asked that her swan costume be brought to her.
	www.nytimes.com /specials/magazine4/articles/pavlova.html (811 words)

	STAR TREK VOYAGER ENCYCLOPEDIA
		Ballet - Janeway says that the dying swan dance that she learned when she was 6 years old was the hit of her beginning ballet class.
		Swan - The highlight of talent night was Janeway performing the dying swan dance that she learned when she was 6 years old.
		Talent night - Neelix has a talent night for the crew; Tuvok does a reading of Vulcan poetry; Kim performs a clarinet solo; the highlight of the evening was Janeway performing the dying swan dance that she learned when she was 6 years old.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/9299/coda.html (829 words)

	Swan Motivation - News Article
		Two hundred kids caught Ted Swan's morning presentation Monday at Gleneagle secondary school - the one with in-your-face car crashes and in-the-gut recollections of what it is like to lift mangled bodies onto stretchers.
		Swan's stories are illustrated with brutally stark post-accident scenes by videographer Bill Cook but the most dramatic prop is always the pinkie, crooked to demonstrate the diameter of the catheter that male victims can expect to be inserted post-accident.
		Ted Swan gives The Talk but parents shouldn't let up, either, he said, because they are the main influence on how their children behave behind the wheel.
	www.swanmotivation.com /n-20030312-tcn.php (454 words)

	Swan Lake - www.ezboard.com
		The more frequently encountered swan maiden is a shape-shifter, like the Selkies; she is captured by seizing her coat or cape of feathers.
		The swan was also a symbol of death in some cultures, and the song of the dying swan is said to be one of joy at the prospect of entering the afterlife.
		Perhaps he turned her into a swan for some political gain (she was a princess, right?) and then grew to desire her through proximity.
	www.surlalunefairytales.com /boardarchives/2001/apr2001/swanlake.html (2451 words)

	The Dying Swan -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Dying (Stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult) Swan is a poem by (additional info and facts about Lord Alfred Tennyson) Lord Alfred Tennyson.
		The Dying Swan is also a famous 1905 solo (A theatrical representation of a story performed to music by ballet dancers) ballet piece choreographed by (additional info and facts about Michel Fokine) Michel Fokine for (Russian ballerina (1882-1931)) Anna Pavlova.
		It is set to music by (additional info and facts about Camille Saint-Saëns) Camille Saint-Saëns, from (additional info and facts about Le Carnaval des Animaux) Le Carnaval des Animaux.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/T/Th/The_Dying_Swan.htm (230 words)

	The Birmingham Post (England): Culture: Dying Swan takes its final bow; The directors of theatres in Worcester and ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Birmingham Post (England): Culture: Dying Swan takes its final bow; The directors of theatres in Worcester and Hereford are both moving on, but in very different circumstances.
		Culture: Dying Swan takes its final bow; The directors of theatres in Worcester and Hereford are both moving on, but in very different circumstances.
		After eight years as artistic director of the Worcester Swan Theatre she saw the curtain fall on her final production, Pinocchio, and on 40 years of professional theatre alongside the Severn, on Saturday night.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:96119277&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (295 words)

	- "Dying Swan" and Anna Pavlova
		Kevin Ng RE: Anna Pavlova and the Dying Swan
		This is probably true....the film stops a second or two before she is completely "dead." But, certainly Amelia I think you would agree it is one of the few ways in which someone who never hd the privilege of seeing her alive could get some idea of how she danced.
		I guess it was in the 1970's I had the privilege of seeing Plisetskaya dance "Dying Swan." She was so marvelous.
	www.ballet.co.uk /dcforum/happening/4507.html (1692 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: The Swan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Swan Yachts, a Finnish builder of luxury yachts.
		The Swan refers to two movies: a 1925 silent film and its 1956 remake.
		The Swan, a short piece for cello and piano from Camille Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, later choreographed by Michel Fokine as The Dying Swan especially for Anna Pavlova.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=The_Swan (329 words)

	Ballet-Dance Magazine - Kirov Ballet - Serenade, Dying Swan, Polovtsian Dances, Leningrad Symphony - Mariinsky Theatre, ...
		Saint-Saens' "The Dying Swan" was disappointingly danced by Tatiana Amosova, whose muscular arms were no compensation for the lack of delicacy and emotion in her movement.
		First appearing as part of the "Russian Seasons" program shown in Paris on May 19, 1909, the program was a demonstration of Fokine's effort to create a ballet focused on the corps de ballet, rather than – as with "The Dying Swan" – a soloist.
		As the program states of the famous score, "The whole world heard in it the pathos of hatred of fascism, the grief for those who died and the faith in future victory." The idea behind the ballet's creation was that history should not repeat itself.
	www.ballet-dance.com /200506/articles/Kirov20050508.html (1010 words)

	Free College Essays.com - Free Essays, Term Papers and Book Reports.
		Anna Pavlova And The Dying Swan Anna Pavlova and the Dying Swan Anna Pavlova is known as one of the greatest ballerinas of all time.
		The movement of a swan gliding on the water is suggested by a continuous stream of bourr¾es, while the arms overhead, tensed and constrained, beat spasmodically.
		Her last performance was on January 23 and at the end of her famous Dying Swan, the curtain closed and the life of this cherished ballerina ended.
	www.free-college-essays.com /History_Other/11596-Anna_Pavlova_And_The_Dying_Swan.html (871 words)

	Dictionary.com/Word of the Day: swan song
		A beautiful legendary song said to be sung by a dying swan.
		Opposition leaders dismissed the Chancellor's speech as the swan song of a leader who has, after 16 years in office, overstayed his welcome with the electorate.
		Swan song is from the belief that the swan sings as it dies.
	dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2001/04/20.html (116 words)

	Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The program opened with Act 2 of Swan Lake and while the arrival of the evil Von Rothbart and the lanky Prince Siegfried make a campy impression, it is not until the arrival of Odette, played by Robert Carter under the stage name "Olga Supphozova," that the delight begins.
		A skinny, aging dancer with a wonderfully ravaged-looking face (especially with mascara, false eyelashes and turquoise eye shadow), Ghislein’s swan tutu is somehow designed to molt a continuous stream of falling feathers and, as he limps his way pathetically around the stage leaving a trail of whiteness, the dancing doesn’t matter at all.
		The "Trocks" open with Swan Lake which is almost completely comedic, and close with Raymonda’s Wedding which is much more about the prowess of these men in their Size 13 toe shoes.
	www.culturevulture.net /Dance2/Trocks.htm (395 words)

	ChesterNovello (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		'The Dying Swan', a score to a 1916 Russian silent film made by Yevgeny Bauer, was commissioned by the British Film Institute in 2002.
		One of the unsung heroes of film pioneering, Bauer's place in the history of cinema has only come to light since the 1980s after the discovery of films that had been gathering dust since his death in 1917.
		She dances the famous Dying Swan (the images match Saint-Saëns' music so perfectly that Talbot retains the music, although not in the Suite) and, in so doing, fascinates an aristocratic dabbler in the arts who wants to catch the essence of death on canvas.
	www.chesternovello.com /work/32061/main.html (234 words)

	PeoplePlay UK - Pavlova: The Dying Swan
		Pavlova herself was the premature daughter of a peasant and a laundress and had known illness and poverty in her childhood.
		He had been practising the Swan sequence from Saint-Saen's 'Carnival of the Animals' on the mandolin, and Pavlova realised it would be suitable for her.
		For the rest of her life, Pavlova was identified with the ballet, and people saw it almost as a metaphor for her life.
	www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /collections/object.php?object_id=999&back=/guided_tours/dance_tour/ballet/revolution_pavlova.php? (243 words)

	Ballet-Dance Magazine - Kirov Ballet - Swan Lake, Act II, Dying Swan, Polovtsian Dances, Scheherezade - Mariinsky ...
		Ratmansky’s entrancing “Middle Duet” – truthfully the sole reason I raced to the theatre early – was replaced at the last minute with the second scene from the first act of “Swan Lake”.
		As Tchaikovsky’s hauntingly beautiful score rose from the orchestra pit, Serova’s overmuscled legs went through the step patterns without accent, her neck disappearing into her shoulders, her head thrown back at inappropriate moments.
		The entire ballet excerpt was as if the theatre had morphed into another company and time zone: one kept thinking this could not possibly be the Kirov Ballet, the same company that is home to Pavlenko, Lopatkina and Vishneva.
	www.ballet-dance.com /200508/articles/Kirov20050719.html (886 words)

	Troppo Armadillo: The Dying Swan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bravura performances of the Dying Swan are now more common among gangsters (not to mention white collar crims) than imitations of Al Pacino in The Godfather a few years ago.
		Of course, who could ever forget the Dying Swan to end all dying swans (except that it didn't): Christopher Skase.
		In fact the only crim I can recall whose dying swan act failed was Bondie.
	troppoarmadillo.ubersportingpundit.com /archives/001244.html (716 words)

	Shakespeare Fellowship Discussion Boards: The Swan of Avon
		The claim was made that "those swans have been called Mute swans since the 14th century." I said I did not know of any instance of the term "mute swan" in Jonson's time; the OED does not give an instance before 1785; a search of LION shows nothing before the late 18th Century.
		As for the vocalizations of these swans, I pointed out last September, Mute Swans are not entirely mute; they make a noise that to me sounds something like a car engine trying to turn over.
		That swans were sacred to Apollo, and that they were thought to sing only rarely (but then beautifully) made them appropriate symbols for poets.
	www.shakespearefellowship.org /ubbthreads/showthreaded.php?Cat=&Number=4379&page=0&view=expanded&sb=9&o=&vc=1 (421 words)

	'Talbot: The Dying Swan' by Joby Talbot from The Portsmouth Chorus.
		'Talbot: The Dying Swan' by Joby Talbot from The Portsmouth Chorus.
		Talbot: The Dying Swan, Joby Talbot,Apollo Saxophone Quartet,Duke Quartet,Rob Farrer,Everton Nelson,Chris Worsey,Joel Hunter,Natalia Bonner,Lucy Shaw.
		Talbot's 'Dying Swan' combines beautifully melodic lines with dissonance, blends clashing ideas with harmonious ones and, quite simply, works on several different levels.
	www.theportsmouthchorus.com /music-cd/B00006RSM5 (226 words)

	mental_floss library
		Noted philosophers Socrates and Plato both noted that swans are mute throughout their lives, and only sing prior to their deaths, a joyful indication that they are on their way to be reunited with Apollo.
		Chaucer made reference to the singing of the dying swan, but the actual phrase "swan song" was first mentioned in Thomas Carlyle's 1833 book Sartor Resartus (The Tailor Retailored).
		Apparently the ancient literati, who thought swans were either silent or songful, never spent any time around the petting zoo duck pond when a swan wasn't getting his rightful share of bread crumbs.
	www.mentalfloss.com /archives/archive2003-04-16.htm (216 words)

	Dying Swan on Almondnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		""Dying Swan" and Anna Pavlova" I have two tapes that include the complete "Dying Swan" danced by Pavlova...
		The Dying Swan (Duke Quartet, Apollo Saxophone Quartet) by Joby Talbot at Tesco.com
		The Dying Swan (Duke Quartet, Apollo Saxophone Quartet) CD Album by Joby Talbot only £11.24 at Tesco.com.
	www.ncpm.co.uk /popmusic/dying_swan.html (365 words)

	Guardian \| Final curtain for dying Swan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Swan in Worcester, where Imelda Staunton and Kevin Whateley began their acting careers, may reopen to touring shows.
		But the Swan's own company died when the curtain came down on Pinocchio, the Christmas show, this month.
		The council leader, Stephen Inman, decided to stop paying the Swan the extra £83,000 in funding it has received for four years and told the theatre it had to "face financial reality".
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4592726-111091,00.html (257 words)

	Swan Lake, Starring Plisetskaya and Fadeyechev, on Video Artists International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1957, at her artistic and technical peak, she was filmed in a color production of the Bolshoi Ballet's four-act Swan Lake in the dual role of Odette and Odile.
		Her lyricism (and those incredible arms) define Odette (the White Swan), while her razor-sharp attacks and brilliant turns demonstrate the malevolence of the Black Swan, Odile.
		For a DVD extra bonus chapter, you will be treated to a complete performance of Plisetskaya in The Dying Swan, one of her astonishing signature roles.
	www.vaimusic.com /VIDEO/DVD_4261_SwanLake.shtml (151 words)

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