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

“I thought, ‘When I’m going to be the carillonneur, I’m going to change the repertoire so the people are going to look up.’

“It’s just sort of broadcast, so there’s a responsibility, I think the carillonneur has, to play music that everyone is able to appreciate.”

He recalled in 2018 that he met a student carillonneur while the two were studying organ together.

When the National Film Board of Canada climbed up the tower for a 1951 documentary, Robert Donnell, the carillonneur at the time, prepared for a performance as if he was getting ready to brawl.