Word: fete
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...guest-conduct the first of two concerts. His programming followed Rachmilovich's principle of playing music that other U.S. orchestras have not yet done to death. Instead of Beethoven and Brahms, NBC fans heard Darius Milhaud's Suite Provençale and Dmitri Kabalevsky's fiery Fete Populaire...
...Chapputs of Michigan, Bobby Layne of Texas, and Tex Furse of Yal are among the gridiron stars who will attend the fete at which Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York is to be honorary chairman...
John Ashbery, no stranger to the Advocate's pages, has turned his ever-competent hand to prose this month. The result is a dream-like story of innuendo, that flits from the amusing to the near-terrifying. "Fete Galante" has as its scene a ball given by an old man on his birthday. "At midnight everyone unmasks!" announces the old man's trusty retainer, but no one is wearing a mask. The true "meaning" of that incident, or of the whole piece, is elusive, but the story is certainly one of aimlessness and frustration; it is objective, succeeding largely because...
Local and national members of the fourth estate, attracted by the unusual character of this year's debutante eleven, will not only be on hand for the affair, but have given the fete considerable advance notice...
...Peter's. Later Pannini painted Charles III of Spain in the same setting. Sometimes, even after his reputation was assured, the artist would not refuse to turn an honest penny by decorating a villa, or whipping up cardboard clouds, fountains and triumphal arches for a sumptuous private fete. But apart from these somewhat theatrical preoccupations, most of Pannini's 74 years were spent among the monuments of a greater age, which he sometimes peopled incongruously with tiny, ineffectual figures dressed in the gay fashions of his own time...