Music to Your Ears

It is easy to miss the announcement in the local paper. But by paying attention – reading each weekly paper, one finds the list of the what the Carillons in the towers of the City will play. The summer schedule: In the Fortified Tower [Drommedaris]: On the hour: Green grow the rashes – Robert Burns. 15 minutes past the hour: Katinka [an entry at the EuroSongFestival in 1962] – Joop Stokkermans. On the half-hour: Fantasia para un Gentilhombre – Joaquin Rodrigo. 15 minutes before the hour: Die Lorelei – Fredrich Silcher. From the Southern Tower: heard: On the hour: Der Konig in Thule [see two dots over the o]- Frans Shubert. 15 minutes past Katrinka [[this means it will repeat immediately, so in fact will be heard 2 x an hour] On the half-hour Menuet nr.70 [De Gruytters Beiaardbook] Joannes de Gruytters and finally 15 before the hour: Die Lorelei [again an immediate repeat]. It is great to know what the titles are so that when hanging out the wash or working in the garden, one recognizes the selection time and again, filing it away – to what end remains to be seen