Word: carillonneur
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...famous Muscovite chimes, long a source of pleasure to music lovers and a source of annoyance to late sleepers, have found a new carillonneur, Gordon Campbell, a House tutor from British Columbia, and the melodic chimes may start any day, thanks to the Corporation...
...Bells Speak. For the first time since the carillonneur had left for the Royal Air Force, the 53 bells in Ottawa's Peace Tower, rising high over the plaza, came to life. Carillonneur Robert Donnell, on special furlough, played America, the Beautiful, then The Maple Leaf Forever. The silver notes shimmered in the cool midday air; the crowd cheered and waved its flags...
...arose when Nancy wrote Detroit's Council for permission to build the tower. Belle Isle is a city park and playground, site of Detroit's Conservatory, scene of its summer Symphony concerts. Council President Edward J. Jefferies Jr. wanted to know who was going to pay a carillonneur's salary in years to come. Nancy explained: her chimes would need no expert, salaried carillonneur. She got her permit...
...have carillons. A carillon has at least 23 bells,* tuned to all the notes of the scale and operated by wires and cranks from a central "clavier" bristling with hefty levers and slat-like foot pedals. By punching with his clenched fists and scrabbling with his feet, a good carillonneur can play anything from roundelays to opera. Because a carillon concert takes a deal of punching and scrabbling, carillonneurs have to be husky. Because all carillons are different, and because very little music is written for the carillon, carillonneurs have to be their own composers and arrangers. Even the best...
...carillonneur's Oxford is the Belgian National Carillon School at Malines, Belgium. There, under the watchful eye of the greatest living carillonneur, 77-year-old Jef Denyn, the neophyte carillonneur gets his final polish and diploma. It takes four or five years of study to make a good carillonneur. The U. S. and Canada together have some 50 carillons, most of them scattered through cities of the East. Nearly all of them are played by old Jef Denyn pupils...