Word: barneses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no shortage of bequests to provide churches and colleges with a carillon; the trouble is there is seldom enough left over for the salary of the rare musician who can play the big bells. North America at present has 115 carillons and only six fulltime carillon-neurs. All...
Barnes, 36, arrived fresh from a twelve-year engagement at the University of Kansas, where he was resident carillonneur, professor of carillon and harpsichord, and curator of rare musical instruments. He brought to Washington the sort of vellum-bound humor acquired in his esoteric calling. "A good organist can adapt...
Carillon technique requires striking rounded oak keys with clenched fists while pumping on the foot pedals-yet tone is controlled by variations in touch, just as on a piano. In his octagonal playing cabin inside the 301-ft. Washington tower, Barnes is surrounded by bells on all sides, and the...
Afterwards, however, Ralston's game seemed to slump. He lost sets to several unheard-of players in the U.S. championships, then was defeated in the quarterfinals by Brasil's Ronnie Barnes. Froehling murdered Barnes the next day, giving him seven games in three sets.
A research team headed by Surgeon Harvey R. Bernard at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis has spent years seeking answers to these fundamental questions. One clear conclusion: surgeons, nurses and patients themselves carry most of the dangerous germs, especially the resistant strains of staphylococci, into the operating theater. Relatively few...