Word: carillonneurs
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...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...