Word: aeolian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...organ to be installed at my countryplace, "Longwood," Chester County, Pa., containing 10,374 pipes and 205 stops, is now being installed by the Aeolian Company in the conservatory at Longwood, where concerts are given from 3 until 5 o'clock every Sunday afternoon On the first and third Sundays of the month the conservatories, gardens and greenhouses, and organ concert are open to the public at an admission fee of 50?, receipts being divided between five hospitals, two in Chester County, Pa., and three in Wilmington, Delaware. (The conservatories and gardens are open free of charge every week...
...Alfred H. Smith Co. As amazing sideshows, he paid $75,000,000 for the French tobacco monopoly two years ago, and bought the Overholt distillery (2,000,000 gallons of whiskey) for $15,000,000. Also he is the man who profited $1,000,000 by buying and selling Aeolian Hall in Manhattan within a week in October...
...buildings reached up to Manhattan skies out of the Fifth Avenue district. Nearly all are strident homes of commerce. But the most beautiful is the new Aeolian Hall dedicated to music. So recently decreed the Fifth Avenue Association, wherefore its president, Colonel Michael Friedsam, (also president of B. Altman & Co.) awarded the Aeolian Co. the annual gold medal in token of its building's pre-eminent beauty. Said the Colonel: "This splendid building is a Fifth Avenue-New York message of inspiration and good will to the country. Such structures . . . insure our country the commercial leadership of the world...
This was at the dedication ceremony. Representing the Aeolian Co. Architect Whitney Warren rose from his chair to deliver remarks appropriate. "The soul is not always in haste, the eye does not always seek the restless gesture of the skyscraper, never attaining its sky. A little rest, a little peace, a simplicity complete, a dream symbolized, as Colonel Michael Friedsam has so fittingly said, by the sounds of lute and viol in castle parks-I hope that the Aeolian Building conveys something of this. In its interior it contains all that modern musical demands may require...
...musicians it is generally agreed that string chamber music is the highest, purest medium of expression. The wealthy patrons of art have taken heed: Felix M. Warburg, Clarence H. Mackay, James P. Warburg, Mrs. Robert Bliss, Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, Mrs. Alma Gluck Zimbalist. So, in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall, last week, a new quartet was heard, enthusiastically applauded for a lovely rendition of the Mozart C Major, Schubert D Minor-the Musical Art Quartet. Three of the artists are pupils of Franz Kneisel:-Sascha Jacobsen, Bernard Ocko, Louis Kaufman; one, Marie Roemaet-Rosanov, cellist, pupil...