Word: carillons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your questions last night and was on to all but two (2). The one on Judith I lost entirely, probably because I never made much of a study of that portion of the Book. The other was on why do the people object to the carillon* and I still think I was some way right on it. My answer was, "because they are not spiritual enough to desire the kind of music we usually get from that class of instrument." And don't you think if they were in harmony with those things they would be glad to have...
...Chicago's distinguished Gold Coast are little Bohemia and the fringe of thugdom. In these lands last week roughnecks and roisterers grumbled, sneered, swore. One bootlegger cried: "By , now they won't let us sleep!" This gentleman had just read in the Chicago Tribune that a 43-bell carillon was going to be installed in St. Chrysostom's Church before Easter...
...carillon is the gift of Richard Teller Crane Jr., in memory of his father, founder of the potent Crane Co. (plumbing fixtures). Last week the bells were tested in London and found to be in perfect harmony with a 53-bell carillon which will soon ring from the Canadian houses of Parliament at Ottawa. The St. Chrysostom bells will be operated by electro-pneumatic machinery and can be played by telegraph from a distance of 3,000 miles. The keyboard has a touch as delicate as a piano...
Meanwhile, on Park Avenue, in Manhattan, the carilloneur having no electro-pneumatic machinery, tugged at levers which rang nine-ton bells and nine-pound bells, waking idlers from their Sunday morning sleep. As everyone knows, these are the bells of the largest carillon in the U. S.?John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s gift to the Park Avenue Baptist Church (TIME, Oct. 5, 1925). To Messrs. Rockefeller and Crane, carillons "sing of eternity and fill the earth with gladsome song"; to jaded sleepyheads, they are no better than an early morning coal delivery...
...rooms, choir-rooms, locker-rooms, kitchens in the basement. There will be bolwing alleys and a basketball court - details which and do not reflect Dr. Fosdick, but are a counterpart to his prime interest in preaching. In the top of the tower, with four new bells, will be the carillon, gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr., which last year disturbed the people of Park Avenue...