Word: aeolian
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...aperitif, and a nod to the British who occupied Iceland in 1940. That's not to say you should stay indoors. Local company Snjófell (tel: [354] 435 6783) offers adrenaline-fueled snowmobile trips to Snaefells' 1,463-m summit - but no through passage to Stromboli, the volcanic Aeolian island where Verne's adventurers emerge upon their return to the earth's surface. From Oct.-April the hotel is open on weekends only. Rooms from $217/night. tel: (354) 435 6700; www.budir.is
Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue Aeolian Hall, New York City...
...sensitive as an Aeolian harp, intelligent as I.A. Richards, and there was as yet no indelible sign on the Cambridge landscape that I had been there. A trial could change everything...
...first act is staged much as Dame Edith Sitwell first performed the play in 1923 to a baffled and exasperated audience in Aeolian Hall in London. The stage is mysteriously covered in movers' white sheets, while the excellent six-piece orchestra (directed by John Major) playfully accompanies in formal black at the center of the stage. Bill Cavness, a local television personality, does the reading, pirouetting through twenty-one highly rhymed, highly rhythmic and almost nonsensical poems. The first act is appropriately restrained and understated, with the audience's attention focused on the music of the words and the orchestra...
...entire inside of the Fisher Hall was gutted. Harris put in 2,742 new seats, with fabric (velvet) and wood (oak) carefully designed to be minimally sound absorbent. All the old seats had been removed; some were given to a fledgling theater group only a few blocks away. The Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ, part of the rear wall, was sold for $100,000 (original cost: $175,000) to a California church. Virtually everything else was reduced to 9,326 yds. of rubble and shipped off to landfill areas in New York and New Jersey...