Carillon 2009, ninety years after the first bells were hung in 1919. Middlebury College in Vermont has a 48-bell carillon located in the steeple of the college's Mead Memorial Chapel. The University of Toronto in Toronto, Canada, has a 51 bell carillon located at Soldiers' Tower, and is the only Canadian university with a functioning carillon. Number of traditional carillons by country, with each country linked to its country-specific list of carillons: Carillon A carillon ( or ; ) is a musical instrument that is typically housed in the bell tower (belfry) of a church or municipal building. The instrument consists
What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World Boston Globe" described the album as one of the band's "most enjoyable and lively efforts in recent memory", "The New York Times" noted that "What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World" "strikes a note of pop concision and maturity, building on what worked on ‘The King Is Dead.’ Lyrically, there are fewer thistles and minarets and palanquins—and, musically, less digressive excess—than once made up the Decemberists’ trademark style." Jeremy Larson of Pitchfork Media was a detractor, bemoaning the album as "overlong and under-ambitious", though appreciating that listeners "start to see Meloy himself more than ever". Larson also wrote highly