Word: ogryzkov
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...were treated to the sounds of five undergraduate klappermeisters honing their bell ringing skills. High above in the belltower, students pressed footpedals as others pulled at an intricate web of ropes above. Their teachers included none other than the bell ringer of the Kremlin, Igor Konovalov, and Hierodeacon Roman Ogryzkov, chief bell ringer of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow. The Russian musical duo is teaching three master classes to the five undergraduate members of the Lowell House Society of Russian Bell Ringers. Their visit is the result of a long saga centered on the acquisition of the bells...
...Then Ogryzkov, Danilov’s chief bell-ringer, took his turn...
...onlookers’ cameras flashed, Ogryzkov quietly tested each bell’s tune for a few seconds by lightly pulling on the attached wires...
...Ogryzkov noted that the Klappermeisters’ approach to bell music, which involves playing popular tunes, clashed with the traditional style...
...Ogryzkov] had to use all four of his limbs at once,” marveled Professor of Mathematics Noam D. Elkies, who is also a musician and composer. “What we do is like playing with one hand on the piano—and he’s playing an organ...