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...Aara Edwards '02 is a member of an informal organization known as the Lowell House Society of Russian Bellringers. Every week, she and a core group of about five or six people show up beneath the roosting bells in the tower to rock them out of their slumber, to show newcomers the ropes and to practice the uncertain science of their playing...
...violist playing with the Bach Society, the Harvard Early Music Society and the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra (where she is also orchestra manager), Aara has a very crowded musical agenda. However, she found some time between rehearsals to chat with us about the history of the bells and her recent experience as their ringer. The Lowell House bells were given to Harvard in 1930 by Richard T. Crane. They had hung in the Danailovsky Monastery in Moscow, but when they were sentenced to the melting-pot, Crane purchased them from the Soviet government and shipped them to America. At that...
...Aara E. Edwards '02 who found out about the group through her Swedish A class, went out on the town with the society last weekend for folk dancing...