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Standing beneath “Sacred Oil,” which weighs more than six tons, Ogryzkov pointed a microphone upwards. He recorded the tunes played by Aara E. Edwards ’02-’04, Alex J. Healy ’02 and Luis A. Campos...
Lenskiy said that he interviewed Eck and two Lowell Klappermeisters, or bell-ringers—Aara E. Edwards ’02-’04 and Lowell resident tutor Luis P. Campos ’99—for a piece on the bells to air across Russia on Saturday...
...Aara E. Edwards ’02-’04, who has been ringing the bells since her freshman year, said she thinks the Lowell ringers do a good job even without training from the expert monks...
...their playing. The bells are tuned to an eastern scale, supposedly a mixture of Byzantine and Tartar influences, which, to the Western ear gives their carillons a haunting and unfamiliar sound. No one here is quite sure how to play them or what music they were cast for. Aara admits that it is only through a lengthy apprenticeship that one begins to recognize the bells as a playable instrument. Her performances hinge on improvisation and experience. Though she and the other ringers have gradually become adept in the bells' individual utterances, no tune as we know it will ever cross...
...despite the aesthetic mystery of their pealing, the Lowell House bells embody something visceral and powerful that falls altogether outside the realm of music. Standing high above Harvard on an open platform and ringing the "Red Bell of Pestilence and Famine" is, Aara will tell you, an exhilarating experience. The 17 bells range from one to 13 feet in diameter, and when they are rung every beam of the tower trembles. The largest bell, the Mother Earth Bell, weighs 13 tons. It is rung at the beginning and end of each concert and it takes two people standing inside...