Word: lumi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through Europe, televiewers watched Geneva's week-long series of ceremonies, commemorations and rededications. High point for Genevans was Switzerland's first "Son et Lumière," a $60,000 pageant of colored spotlights and tape-recorded voices that ranged all over the Reformation Monument, the university and the old city walls to illustrate with real-life details the story of the Great Reformer...
France is loaded with châteaux, tourists and musicians. Such is the Gallic sense of style that these disparate elements are now combined in an artistic enterprise that is also a moneymaker. The enterprise is called Son et Lumière (Sound and Light), and it amounts to setting all those chateaux to music...
Dams After Châteaux. Versailles' Son et Lumière is merely the biggest, best known of scores of similar musical spectacles that have cropped up all over France. (In 1953, Versailles' first year, some 180,000 people saw it, and by last year the entire original production cost of $125,000 was paid off.) Georges Van Parys, one of France's best-known movie composers, did the music for the simpler spectacle at Compiègne, the rural pleasure dome of Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie. Other pageants are staged at Avignon, 14th...