Word: te
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poor Marie Antoinette." Grace saw to it that she was not excluded for long. Her parties, on which in her heyday she spent about half a million a year, became famed for their opulence. For one Fēte des Roses she brought the entire cast of Red Rose Inn, then in the midst of a highly successful New York fun, to a theater built especially for the occasion on the grounds of Beaulieu, her red brick villa at Newport. Said one of her guests, the Grand Duke Boris of Russia: "Is this really your America or have I landed...
...exclusive Cannes nightclub gave birth to a new form of fun: pelting the aging Ago Khan with green cotton balls soaked in champagne. Said the indignant target: "This is terrible. I do not like this." Among the pelters: son Aly Khan and Cinemactress Gene Tierney, his latest Côte d'Azur romance...
Until recently, the instrument has been little more than a musical morgue where performances could be preserved and exhumed at will. Last summer the U.S. got a taste of creative recording in France's musique concréte, a compilation of natural sounds (trains, bells, crowd noises, etc.), recorded on tape, cut and spliced at patterns to make a composition...
...ministers, generals, admirals and other high-ranking officers filed before him, bowing. On one side of the throne room 50 envoys, including U.S. Ambassador Lincoln MacVeagh, looked on. After the ceremony, bigwigs and diplomats proceeded to the Church of St. Francis the Great for a thanksgiving ceremony with a Te Deum Mass...
...first four Sauter-Finegan recordings have an enlarged percussion section (xylophone, bells, kettledrums, etc.). But each side has a definite mood of its own: Rain sizzles like a summer shower on a slate roof; Azure-Te hits a melancholy note with a low, liquid flute sound (played on a recorder); Stop! Sit Down! Relax...