Word: carillons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Often cursed often misunderstood, often neglected, Lowell's bells are, believe it or not, true Russian Zvon, or carillon. Students of all the Houses, and cantabridgians for miles around, often hear them Sunday as they receive their monthly once-over by Arthur T. Meritt, associate professor of Music...
...saradjeff came with the bells as a sort of auxiliary gift. Born of a family of talented Zvon-players, he was reared in an atmosphere of Zvon. By the time he arrived in America, he had already composed 132 symphonies for the Russian carillon, and was rumored to know by its tone each of the 4000 bells in Moscow. Saradjeff was commissioned of install the Lowell House set and to teach the art of playing them to various candidates...
...corporation decided several years ago that once a month would be often enough to display the Carillon's mighty tones and Meritt now rings them. Students hear them for only 15 minutes every fourth Sunday now, but on Victory Day...watch...
...memory. What he saw was a lordly, rotund lady riveter named Rosie (see cut), ankles crossed, overalled knees relaxed, looking royally satisfied with herself and her bulging cheekful of ham sandwich. Mr. Sommerville took Rosie the Riveter to the public library. Memory's bells became a carillon when he turned up a reproduction of Michelangelo's Isaiah (see cut). Mr. Sommerville sent his find to the Kansas City Star, which made good-humored...
Unbelievers who do not see the show may doubt that Heaven's closing sequence (Pastor Spence playing The Church's One Foundation on his new church's new carillon for the hymning townfolk in the street below) has the kick of a Missouri mule...