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6 unusual facts about Carillon


Albert Prefontaine

Running as a UFM candidate, he was re-elected for Carillon in 1922.

Préfontaine was first elected to the provincial parliament in 1903, running for Rodmond P. Roblin's governing Conservatives in the francophone riding of Carillon.

Alyssa Pierce

In February 2010 Pierce announced on her website that she is in the process of completing her first novel, entitled As the Carillon Chimed.

Carillon

Cornell University is home to the Cornell Chimes, one of the most frequently played set of bells on any American college campus.

Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont also has a 48 bell carillon, which is located in the steeple of the college's Mead Memorial Chapel.

James River and Kanawha Canal

Visitors can also visit Three Mile Lock or Pumphouse Park located behind the Carillon in William Byrd Park.


All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames

The church contains a 14th-century wall painting of St. Blaise, a 17th-century marble font attributed to Sir Christopher Wren, twelve bells and an 18th-century carillon, the great west window of the 19th century, and the Frobenius organ installed in 1988.

Battle of Ticonderoga

Battle of Ticonderoga (1758) or Battle of Carillon, an unsuccessful British attack on French

Burton Memorial Tower

Its carillon was donated by Michigan alumnus Charles A. Baird, a lawyer and the first U-M athletic director, and has been christened the "Charles Baird Carillon".

Carillon in Berlin-Tiergarten

The carillon was given to the city by Daimler-Benz AG under CEO Edzard Reuter in 1987 on the occasion of Berlin's 750th birthday.

Eaton Chapel

The clock tower contains a carillon of 28 bells which were cast by Chavalier Severian Van Aerschodt of Louvain; it plays 31 tunes.

Fort Crown Point

The Crown Point fort was constructed by the British army under the command of Sir Jeffery Amherst following the capture of Carillon, a French fort to the south (which he renamed Ticonderoga), and the destruction of Fort St. Frédéric.

Hardy Memorial Tower

The Fletcher Symphonic Carillon was presented as a gift to SDSU by Senator and Mrs. Ed Fletcher in 1946 to commemorate the fiftieth (50th) anniversary of the university and to serve as a memorial to students lost in war.

Hornsby Water Clock

The carillon has 17 tubes of cast bell-bronze that chime automatically on the hour, or they can be played manually.

Léon Boëllmann

Suite gothique, op. 25, Deuxième Suite, op. 27, Offertoire sur des noëls, Carillon et Choral des Douze Pièces op. 16, Deux esquisses, Fantaisie, Heures mystiques (extraits), op. 29 & 30, Helga Schauerte-Maubouet, Kuhn organ of Minden cathedral (Germany), Syrius SYR 141374.

Mount Rubidoux

A sunset over Mount Rubidoux, in 1909, was the occasion for Carrie Jacobs-Bond to compose her famous song, "A Perfect Day", which for many years was played each day as the last tune on the Mission Inn's carillon.

Rockefeller Chapel

This 72-bell carillon is the second-largest carillon in the world by mass, after the carillon at Riverside Church on the Upper West Side of New York City, which Rockefeller Jr. also donated in honor of his mother.

Roman De Salvo

His 2003 work Crab Carillon was installed on a bridge spanning the Martin Luther King Jr. Freeway in San Diego.

Soldiers' Tower

In 1976, the carillon was rededicated at its present size with the addition of 28 bells from Petit & Fritsen.

Vytautas the Great War Museum

The first carillonists of the Kaunas carillon were Lithuanian composers Viktoras Kuprevičius and his son Giedrius Kuprevičius.


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