The Fountain of Arethusa

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Director :

Dimitri Kirsanoff

Stars :

Sabine EarlMichel GevelTasso JanopouloJacques Thibaud

Genre :

MusicFantasy

Release :

1936-01-01

Story :

“La Fontaine d'Aréthuse” opens with what has been described as a “shimmering wash of sound in the piano, octave leaps in the left hand passing above and below repeated chords in the right,” a tune which apparently suggests the splashing waters of a fountain. The story “told” by the music involves a naked water goddess on the river shore, who is pursued by a hunter, before disappearing into thin air to join her water once again.