Word: carillons
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...sunlit clearing on Belle Isle, between nonbelligerent Detroit and warring Canada, since last autumn there has been building a 90-ft. tower for a carillon dedicated to peace. It was conceived by a little old lady, Nancy Brown, aged 69, and paid for by the nickels and dimes contributed by those who read her famed lovelorn column in the Detroit News (TIME...
...colleges, universities, women's clubs, school children, actors, policemen gave more than $1,000,000 to restore the library. In 1928 the new library was dedicated. Designed by famed Architect Whitney Warren, it was built of white stone and red brick, had a tall spire and a carillon of 48 bells...
...reach from Jacksonville on the north to Key West in the south (see map). They went to fish for sail, marlin, tarpon on both coasts; to peer at fish on display at Marineland and Silver Springs; to watch their favorite ballplayers at Orlando, Clearwater, Sarasota; to hear the Bok Carillon at Lake Wales; to see Seminoles and alligators and flamingos and orange trees; to have...
Through the efforts of Thomas Whittemore, keeper of Byzantine Coins and Seals in Fogg Museum and Fellow for Research in Byzantine Art, Crane was able to obtain the bells, after assuring the Soviet government, which was unwilling to let the carillon out of the country if it was to be used for religious purposes, that Harvard was not a religious institution...
...Zvon-player learns the trade from his father, who learned it from his, who learned it form his. Saradjeff was the son of a father and mother both of whom played the bells, and when he came to this country, he had already composed 132 symphonies for the Russian carillon. It was said that he could recognize any of the 4000 bells in Moscow by its tone...