The Bells

安妮

Published: January 17, 2010Posted in: Arts, cultural literacyTags:

Tonight my daughter was practicing a piece for the piano called Cathedral Bells. She just wasn’t getting it and so I pulled up youtube!

Youtube is truly one of my favorite teaching tools! Tonight I was able to let Xuxu hear the bells from several cathedrals and now the piece she is playing sounds like it should!

By the way, I love bells, bell towers, everything that has to do with bells! Oh how my heart longs to live in a city where the bells toll each hour! (This is the reason there are three video clips…I could have posted so many more!)

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Jeannetta

Posted January 17, 2010 at 11:03 PM

Good thinking mom! I love youtube for that reason as well.
Montserrat

Posted January 18, 2010 at 2:17 PM

We enjoy using youtube for instructional purposes too!

Your blog only shows up once in my google reader.
Angela

Posted January 27, 2010 at 8:36 AM

I used to love living in heritage halls at BYU everyday at noon the bells would play! At the time it was as close to europe as I could get
Marmee

Posted January 27, 2010 at 9:00 AM

I also lived in Heritage Halls and loved those bells. I think the last time we were able to hear them, Xuxu was about 5 or 6. ;o(
Jenny Snyder

Posted January 31, 2010 at 7:01 AM

Every night at 6:00 I pick my daughter up from work and the bells of the Polish church are playing. Just beautiful. Thank you for the reminder!

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