Word: carillonneur
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...carillonneur will be the famous Anton Brees of Antwerp, Belgium, and he will spend his winters in Lake Wales...
...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 altitude in the old church is unable to do itself anything even remotely approaching full justice...
...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 to his mother, Laura Spelman Rockefeller.** This will be a great satisfaction and a tribute also, to Carillonneur Anton Brees, the Belgian, who has complained that the present height of this largest carillon in the world?? does not permit full effect to their marvelous tone beauty, that they should be at least 300 feet above ground. Certainly too their removal will satisfy many New Yorkers who criticised them...
...everyone knows, John D. Rockefeller Jr. recently presented the Park Avenue Baptist Church with a set of bells, the largest carillon in the world, and procured from Belgium Anton Brees, carillonneur, to play them. Every Sunday, every Thursday evening and sometimes in the morning, the bells have beautifully pealed forth adaptations of great music. Mr. Rockefeller believes it is a sweet sound. Not so an architect, Maxwell Hyde, who wrote to the New York Times declaring the bells to be "a nuisance"; not so an aged paralytic, who declared the bells tortured him; not so young mothers, who stated...
...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 to someone standing among its pipes. M. Brees said...