WAR MEMORIAL CARILLON

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 225, 19 June 1929, Page 11

WAR MEMORIAL CARILLON

RECITAL ON WELLINGTON’S BELLS BROADCAST

RICH TONES BEAUTIFULLY DISPLAYED

(United Press Association.— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) Australian Press Assn. —United Service.

London, June 17.

A recital of Wellington’s War Memorial Carillon was broadcasted throughout the country with great success last evening. The richness and variety of tone of the forty-nine bells were beautifully displayed by the recitalist, Mr. Clifford Bell, playing at the Newcastle Exhibition, where the carillon is being shown prior to its shipment to New Zealand. The music included the “Londonderry Air” and the hymn “Now the Day is Over.” Sir James Parr, introducing the recital to listeners-in, recalled New Zealand’s war effort on behalf of the Empire, and emphasised the unique nature of the memorial in the fact that the bells were inscribed “The Somme, “Jutland,” “Gallipoli,” and other battlefields where New Zealand’s seventeen thousand dead lie.