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...Intervention that led to the current religious regime. The new state, Morris writes, is an efficient, tourism-obsessed, architecturally innovative resort destination - a kind of sanitized Singapore or a deracinated Dubai. The snow raspberries are now genetically engineered and exported aggressively, the trumpeter has been replaced by an electronic carillon, and the old ethic and religious tensions are reasserting themselves. "In many ways," writes Morris, the city has become "a paradigm of our 21st century zeitgeist." A paradigm it will remain, for Hav exists only in the mind of Jan Morris. Last Letters from Hav, her first novel, was short...
Royal Eijsbouts in the Netherlands—which also claims to be the world’s largest bell foundry—is currently working with the University of Chicago to repair the Rockefeller Chapel’s 72-bell carillon...
...CRIMSON was startled to learn last night. The grinding clangor will not be celebrating his visit to Cambridge, nor yet a favorable gold decision, but will be fulfilling a wish that the unwitting President made in October 1933 when he was gracefully extricating himself from the Lowell House carillon flasco...
This isn’t a new rage, either. People have talked about giving Harvard a carillon for a while. The last offer Harvard received was from a Groton graduate who insisted that two students from Groton be admitted each year in order to care for, and play, the bells. While this alumnus’ idea of preferential treatment is not ideal, having students play the bells most definitely is. At Yale, the Student Carillon Guild offers instruction and recitals, providing an education while creating beautiful music. Learning how to play the bells at my high school...
There has also never been a better time for a carillon at Harvard. Specifically, we have so much more room now (much to the distaste of Allston and Watertown residents), room that could be effectively used for a nice park, with benches and shrubs, perhaps some nice wildflowers and, of course, a carillon tower (with an appropriately sized carillon inside). Just think of the Sunday afternoon recitals in May. Such a park would be a benefit to the surrounding community and a boon to Harvard as well. A carillon here would do much to enrich an already wealthy cultural smorgasbord...