Word: aeolians
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...Manhattan's Aeolian Hall one afternoon in 1925, Conductor" Walter Damrosch put down his baton, turned to the audience that had just listened to the first performance of a new work by an unknown young composer. Roared Damrosch, in facetious disavowal of music that he had nonetheless thought well worth performing: "If a young man of 23 can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder...
Hyperthyroidism types are touchy, temperamental, "respond to the environment like an Aeolian harp." They are emotionally sensitive, and can be upset by harsh words or looks. Their moods swing so wildly between ecstasy and depression that they may become insane; many are artists, poets, actors, writers. They are emotionally immature, often sexually cold...
When Rhapsody in Blue was first played -with young Composer George Gershwin at the piano and Paul Whiteman's big, brassy band shattering the serenity of Manhattan's Aeolian Hall-neither audience nor critics liked their first taste of concert jazz. The Herald Tribune objected to its "complete lifelessness." Most audiences, if not critics, have changed their tune in the 21 years since then...
...simplicity and reasonable fidelity. Newcomer Robert Alda looks enough like Gershwin and, with the aid of some astute photography, fakes his piano playing skilfully enough to be convincing in the cacophony of Remick's, a music publishing company, and impressive at a concert grand in Manhattan's Aeolian Hall...
...Tyrrhenian Sea the U.S. Navy captured the storied Lipari (or Aeolian) Islands. A volcanic cluster where the Greeks housed their god of the winds and the Black. Shirts jailed their political enemies, the Lipari in Allied hands help assure Allied dominance of the waters triangulated by Sicily, Sardinia and lower Italy...