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Luray’s carillon of 47 bells are ringing again as evening concerts resumed this month.
Recitals by Ch Chapman will be given for a 45 minute period every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, beginning at 8 p.m., from June 2 to September 15.
Carillonneur Chapman is widely recognized as one of the master of practicioners of the art. The president of the Washington Composers Club said of him: “Charles T. Chapman plays with a variety of shading which is truly astonishing. The reason for his excellence is his allaround musical ability combined with a great artistic sensitiveness in respect to musical values. To him his bells are not merely masses of metal to be struck at, but musical entities from which are to be coaxed all the beautiful and varied sonorities requisite to the expression of human emotion through sound.”
John Powell, Virginia’s foremost pianist and composer, noted that “the huge and clumsy mechanism of the carillon and the inevitably percussive quality of its tone would seem to preclude the possibility of expressing through it sensitive or profound musicianship. Nevertheless. Charles
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