BELL-MUSIC.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20379, 10 April 1928, Page 10

BELL-MUSIC.

SYDNEY’S CARILLON. UNIVERSITY WAR MEMORIAL. iFrom Oub Own Corresp noeni.) SYDNEY, March 23. Before very long the bells of the Great War memorial carillon, at the Sydney unxversity, will ring out,above the tumult and the din of the city, their message of joy, and, for the relatives of the fallen, of beautiful solace. In an age of materialism, and of war memorials which, in a great many instances, are an ugly blot, the choice of the carillon fittingly to perpetuate the memory of hose who made the great sacrifice out ™ the red horizon, was a master, stroke. On clear days, the great bells will be heard for miles. They will probably be played for the first time on Anzac Day. They promise to be as notable as the worldfamous carillons of Bruges and Ghent. Sydney University, while it has turned out armies of doctors and lawyers and scientists, and so on, has not been conspicuous for the encouragement of music. It has no chair of music, as a matter of fact, but the carillon,the first in Australia, the second in the British Empire, and one of the finest in the world, will associate the university with a happy contribution to one of the highest and most beautiful of the arts. Sydney hopes thai the bells will be used for both sacred and secular purposes. The carillon has not yet been christened with a distinctive name, such as the Old World bells, popularly known as Great Toms, Great Peters, Great Pauls, Great Johns, and so on. No better site could have been chosen for the carillon than the university, surrounded, as it is, by open spaces, and overlooking, as it does, the city for many miles round.