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...purpose of the inaugural recital was, in large part, to appease the neighbors: half the 10,000 invitations went to families who may henceforth expect to be awakened now and then in the church's good name. But at the peal of the first bell, all fears of future grumbling vanished on the light night wind. The timbre and quality of each of the bells proved to be perfectly matched, and Barnes won warm reviews for the nuance, style and strong rhythmic feeling with which he played the 60 tons of sonorous bells that he is confident...
...Negro children of Birmingham, however, kept right on marching. And despite all they were up against, despite hoses and clubs and police dogs and hate and folly, there was a peal of truth in the prophecy of the anthem that the marchers sang...
...sentences curl upward. They chase each other around the room in dreamy images of Steamboat Gothic. Now he conjures moods of mirth, now of sorrow. He rolls his bright blue eyes heavenward. In funereal tones, he paraphrases the Bible (" 'Lord, they would stone me . . .'") and church bells peal. "Motherhood." he whispers, and grown men weep. "The Flag!" he bugles, and everybody salutes...
...tower will enclose the world's most awesome bell chorus-a ten-bell peal and a 53-bell carillon. The carillon bells will range down the scale to a twelve-ton low E-flat bell. "The reason for bells in a church tower," says Dean Sayre, "is to mark for people events in their lives which portend the turning points"-in the case of the Washington Cathedral, "the inauguration of a President, word of war or peace." The Final Gargoyle. More than $12 million has been spent to bring the cathedral to its present grandeur. At today...
...German Expressionist Emil Nolde, colors had a life of their own: "Weeping and laughing, hot and holy, like love songs and eroticism, like chants and magnificent chorales. Vibrating, they peal like silver bells and clang like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death." The "sweetness, often sugariness" of Renoir and Monet was not to his harsher taste, and he complained bitterly in the years before World War II that "their art, because it meets popular taste, is elected darling of the world...