SYDNEY’S CARILLON

Hokitika Guardian, 5 April 1928, Page 2

SYDNEY’S CARILLON

UNIVERSITY WAR MEMORIAL. SYDNEY. .March 23. Before very long the hells of the great war memorial carillon, at the Sydney University, 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 those who made the great sacrifice out on the red horizon, was a master stroke. On clear days, the great hells will be board for miles. Tli cy will probably he played for the first time on Anxac Day. They promise to be as notable as the world-fam-ous carillons of Bruges and Ghent. Sydney University, while it lias turned out armies of doctors and lawyers, and scientists, and so on, lias 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 l niversity with a happy contribution to one of the highest and most beautiful of arts. Sydney hopes that the hells "ill he used for both sacred and secular purposes. The carillon has not yet been christened with a distinctive name, such as the old-world hells 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 1 niversity, surrounded, as it is, by open spaces, and overlooking, as it does, the city for many miles round.