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Some months back I started working on this composition, based on early chant. I left my home in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina for a hospitable exile in Knoxville, Tennessee with my dog Winfield who had a window seat on the plane. When I returned I was inspired to add ambient sounds relating to what I had heard in my home during the storm. The bells were not actually sounded during Katrina but in history these same bells heard on this piece were often used for alarms of all sorts.

The main bell of our Saint Louis Cathedral, a minor Basilica, in the Vieux Carre or French Quarter was named Victory after the Battle of New Orleans. Below is some interesting information on the history of such.
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Oh yes, my dog Winfield, another witness to this storm, makes his debut on MacIdol in this composition. Photograph made 2 days after Katrina of Saint Anthony's Garden in the rear of the Cathedral, French Quarter, New Orleans.

Many of the bells used in churches are engraved with appropriate inscriptions, telling the various uses to which they are put. Some bear the title "Ave Maria," and are used especially for the Angelus; others have an invocation to St. Gabriel, the archangel of the Annunciation. On many of the bells in the old churches in England quaint verses were used, such as:
Men's death I tell by doleful knell;
Lightning and thunder I break asunder;
On Sabbath all to church I call;
The sleepy head I rouse from bed;
The tempest's rage I do assuage;
When cometh harm, I sound alarm.

An idea which was common some centuries ago was that the sound of church bells was a sure safeguard against lightning and violent tempests; and therefore the bells were rung vigorously during storms.