Word: aeolian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the aeolian depths of the Park Street subway station, the Vagabond emerged into walls of rain and one of those incomparable Tremont Street typhoons. During a moment of vexation, he wondered if Orson Welles and Burgess Meredith were really worth all this. But Vag fought to subdue his sudden spurt of misanthropy and pushed on. After all, he told himself, he was about to have an opportunity to absorb the liquid words and sly wit of two great Thespians, and absolutely gratis, to boot. True, it wasn't a performance of "The Five Kings," but it was an interview...
Fourteen years ago, about the time Benny Goodman was doing imitations of Ted Lewis in a Chicago vaudeville house, Paul Whiteman & band gave a jazz concert in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall. What it lacked in sincerity as a strictly jazz presentation, it made up in salesmanship, for swing music was launched on a profitable era. Last week, swing having been to the dog house and back as far as national appreciation is concerned, Benny Goodman, a far more serious artist than Mr. Whiteman and one of the principal reasons that swing came back, gave a concert in Carnegie Hall...
...sites. In 1925 he paid $6,000,000 for a corner in Manhattan's Times Square, put a shop on it to sell cigarets at a pipsqueak profit per package. Mr. Schulte's great attachment to real estate has not been entirely irrational. Once he bought the Aeolian Hall, then on 42nd Street, and sold it two weeks later for $1,000,000 profit...
...purists Bach sounds too thick, too soft, when played on an organ built, as most modern organs are, on 19th Century lines. According to Musicraftsman Adler, the clean, transparent tone of the Trio Sonatas derives from the 17th Century-style engineering of the Westminster organ (built by Aeolian-Skinner and equaled in "baroque" tone only by the organs of Wellesley College and the Germanic Museum at Harvard...
...became a rich man, filled his penthouse with expensive furniture, African sculpture, a Mustel pipe organ, a fine collection of French moderns. George Gershwin had time and inclination for serious work. In 1923 he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue for Paul Whiteman's jazz-concert played in highbrow Aeolian Hall. The enthusiastic reception it got is now historic. Thereafter Gershwin wrote for a double audience. Some 18,000 people packed Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium when he played his works there. Walter Damrosch conducted Gershwin's Jazz Concerto in sanctified Carnegie Hall. The dazzling harmonics and crisp, slangy...