Word: aeolian
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...featured artist was Lois Pardue, Assistant University Organist. Mrs. Pardue proved to be technically expert and polished--a supple and tasteful performer who knows how to use the Church's splendid Aeolian-Skinner organ to fine advantage. There was occasional insecurity in the string ensemble, but the over-all result was above par. The finest works on the program were the corner ones: Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B-minor, BWV 544, and Piston's Prelude and Allegro for Organ and Strings. The Bach was especially welcome, for it is not often heard these days; it is a lofty...
...cause has less stridency than when harangued. And when O'Casey's outcast street figures raise their voices in a dream of fair Dublin, there is a sudden sense of a city's voice upraised. But things seem oftener picturesque than intense, and windy rather than Aeolian. The finest moments have the comic smack and grizzle of Juno. A trio of codgers snort and wrangle gloriously, and go right on snorting and wrangling while they crouch on the floor to avoid what may crash through the windows. When one old boy claims St. Patrick for a Protestant...
...Callaghan. While Keats was beginning shy pleasantries with Fanny Brawne in Hampstead, he was also conducting a more full-bodied relationship with Mrs. Jones at her house in Gloucester Street−"a very tasty sort of place," Keats called it, "with Books, Pictures, a bronze statue of Buonaparte, Music, aeolian Harp; a Parrot, a Linnet, a Case of choice Liquers...
Volcano (Panama; United Artists) is an eruptive drama set on Vulcano, one of the small (pop. 450), rugged Aeolian islands west of the toe of Italy. In a melodramatic manner, it tells the highly melodramatic story of a prostitute (Anna Magnani) banished by the Naples police to her native island after an absence of 18 years. There she finds her innocent young sister (Geraldine Brooks) in danger of being seduced by an unscrupulous diver (Rossano Brazzi). In the end, the prostitute kills the diver and dies in a volcanic eruption...
Manhattan's old Aeolian Hall, but the Duke stuck to his own style and rapidly built up a following. By 1935, most of the U.S. was humming such Ellington compositions as Mood Indigo, Sophisticated Lady and Solitude...