carillon

At noon on Tuesday, some church bells and carillons in the Netherlands didn’t sound like they usually do.

Charles Semowich, who plays the carillon inside the 392-foot tower at Riverside Church, said he hears occasional screeching outside his window.

Artists can take over and “play” billboards and the chapel like a carillonneur playing a carillon.

The final gesture comes as a surprise: a sudden, brilliant cascade from opposite ends of the keyboard toward the center, a carillon from the beyond.

The carillon isn’t just a workout for the legs.