It was the last time after 55 years that Donald Butt would end a Sunday service at Irvington’s Church of St. Barnabas by playing the postlude, and he wasn’t going to go quietly into retirement. The piece he chose, the Carillon de Westminster by French composer Louis Verne, interweaves the four repetitive notes of the carillon chimes played from the clock tower above the British parliament. The piece runs for a full seven minutes, building to a climax designed to […]
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