US & Canada bell ringers' solidarity

[David Maker <forksandhope sbcglobal net>]

Greetings.  I write as an individual member of the Guild of Carillonneurs 
in North America.  Yesterday, US-based leaders in my Guild issued the 
following statement to the Guild's Canadian members:


Given recent political developments in the US, we've felt it important to 
reach out and affirm that you and the Canadian carillon culture have 
always been and will continue to be integral to the North American 
carillon culture and to the GCNA. From North America's first well-tuned 
carillon arriving in Toronto in 1922 to the GCNA's founding in Ottawa in 
1936 and all of the exemplary Canadian carillonists and GCNA officers who 
have contributed along the way, the Canadian carillon culture has been 
inextricably linked with the American one.
We welcome any of your feedback or suggestions for how the GCNA can remain 
a truly North American entity, and one that's as fully inclusive of 
Canadians as possible. The ongoing heritage music committee project to 
typeset and publish many of Émilien Allard's previously unpublished pieces 
is certainly a point of progress. A selection of the first batch of these 
pieces will be performed at this year's Congress. 



I welcome this statement as an expression of international solidarity.  I 
hope that the North American Guild of Change Ringers is undertaking 
similar expressions.

Thanks for reading,
David MakerEllington, Connecticut
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