Word: carillons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Klein, carillonneur; RCA Victor Stereo). It is easy to quibble with the style of this Christmas celebration, but hard to find fault with the sound. There are too many wailing choristers and glutinous strings in the standard selections (White Christmas, Jingle Bells), but the 1,453 bells of the Carillon Americana brazen it out with a clarity and resonance sure to pin any true stereo...
Majestic, Big Ben-like bongs pealed out across Washington last week, as carillon experts triumphantly tested, for the first time, the biggest of the 27 French-built bells in the stately, 100-ft. Robert Taft Memorial Tower on Capitol Hill. The tone proved just right, and the tower, built with almost $900,000 in private donations as a memorial to the late Republican Senator from Ohio, would be ready right on schedule for dedication-and presentation to Congress as a gift to the nation-next spring...
...exhibit of "the vital problems that frighten mankind" (which includes two gigantic U.S. dollar bills), and souvenirs (scarves with the papal coat of arms, a special issue of Vatican stamps, money of the Vatican State). Total cost, not counting the donated cement, glass, carpets, wood, altar, organ and two carillon systems: about...
...Carillon & Congresses. On a plot of only 13,500 sq. ft., the Protestant pavilion consists of a prefab circular church that will hold 200 people and a prefab one-story display building. Wide arcs of the church wall are glass, so that the passing crowd will be able to look in upon the worshipers at the two daily services (four on Sundays). "We wanted the public to see what Protestant worship is like," says the Rev. Pieter Fagel of The Netherlands, Evangelical Reformed chairman of the pavilion committee...
...fair to go to church. We didn't plan congresses, the way the Catholics did." (The Catholics will hold some 60 congresses, will bring the faithful to Brussels from all over Europe in 1,000 buses and numerous special trains.) One Protestant worry is the electronic carillon in the Civitas Dei bell tower 570 yards away. "I hope they don't play it too much," gloomed Fagel last week. "We'd like to make ourselves heard, too." Father Joos was reassuring: "We probably won't be allowed to play it at top volume. The Protestants...