Word: carillonned
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Despite the claim by Carillon Records that this is a high. fidelity recording, some of the techniques are not too refined: several pieces end with a thwop where the sound cuts off, and the piano occasionally sounds tin-plated...
...great and varied that one is often tempted to look and make sure he is using only one instrument. In Diaz's hands, the guitar becomes an organ with a hundred stops--but infinitely more expressive. At one point it sounds like a harpsichord; at another, like a carillon, or like a piano. In melodic passages Diaz's shifts were so smooth and his vibrato so intense that the tone was violin-like. During a Villa-Lobos dance his forceful, resonant bass had a brass quality. Such versatility would in itself distinguish his playing; the remarkable thing is that...
...music-which is alternately light and serious, old and new-is as pleasant as an international blend of good coffees. The trio sings in half a dozen languages, from carillon French (The Monks of St. Bernard) to olive Portuguese (Curimã) to blue-book English: "It's not that she won't, young man," go the surprisingly workable lyrics of Hey Li Lee Li Lee, "it's that she has so many unresolved problems in her personality structure that it makes it very difficult for her to achieve a decision in a time of intensified emotional stress...
...Little America, and President Conant had the 7 o'clock ringing of the bells discontinued in the Yard, while the College's then-most-famous-graduate was quoted as saying from Washington that he would sooner see his name conferred on a baby than on Lowell House's carillon...
...Mangiate Le Margherite (Please Don't Eat the Daisies). In the room next door, a television set peers out from the interior of an enormous iron stove, symbolically lighting no fires in this particular house. High above it all, bolted to the eaves, is a functioning 28-bell carillon that, at the touch of a switch, tolls out something from Carmen, which, in the Larchmont libretto, means "Come home." Whether for dinner, discipline or to greet a visitor, the Kerr boys head in when they hear the bell; so, in fact, did their late, spectacularly lamented...