Word: breese
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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* Another agitator: Edward William Bok, Philadelphia publicist, whose son William Curtis testified last winter before the House tariff-makers. Last week the Curtis Institute of Music, pet project of Mrs. Bok, announced a course in campanology (carillon-playing) under Anton Brees, carillonneur of the Bok carillon at Mountain Lake, Fla...
The carillonneur will be the famous Anton Brees of Antwerp, Belgium, and he will spend his winters in Lake Wales. . . .
The bell tower will be of especial comfort to Carillonneur Anton Brees. M. Brees presides over the 53-bell carillon, a gift of Trustee John Davison Rockefeller Jr., which will be installed (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926) in the new edifice. M. Brees complains that the carillon at its present low...
The bell tower, 75 feet square at the base, will be over 300 feet high and topped by some architectural form other than a spire. Here will be cased the 53 bells of the carillon Mr. Rockefeller has had installed in the present Park Avenue Church tower as a memorial...
Carillonneur Brees, when confronted with these complaints, admitted that the music of his bells is not all that it should be. Because the Baptist Church is so low and the echoing walls so high, the carillon sounds to a man in the street much as a great organ would sound...