Before an audience of several dozen elephant fans, the mahouts dressed their elephants with gold-plated nettipattam on their foreheads, strings of bells around their necks and ankles and garlands of marigolds.
In Part 2, the more abstract "Idiot Variations," Mr. Eckert plays the village idiot who imagines himself a mystic, dressed in the ragged white robes of an Indian sage with a string of Tibetan bells hanging from his neck.
Attach the small bell to the string of balls.
The Brooklyn born producer tore up Stateside clubs in the 90s with a string of diving-bell-deep classics.
He swallowed up a string of other "Baby Bells" before crowning his achievement by buying the remains of the parent firm and renaming his company AT&T.
The work is set to an original score by Keaton Henson, which combines heavy strings and percussion with recordings of bells, sirens and warplanes.
From that class I learned of a newish studio in the 14th Arrondissement called Be Yoga, a cheerfully painted little neighborhood place adorned with a string of prayer flags and some bells outside the entrance.
Combinations of strings and bells yield a magical, sparkling effect, and some of the woodwind passages approach that spirit from a different direction, with allusions to the brisk descending clarinet lines that animate Bernstein's "Candide" Overture along the way.
For a droll touch, he positioned a plant called string of pearls so that its bell-shaped leaves cascaded down the steer's head like curly green bangs.
It is an example of what Mr. Pärt calls tintinnabulation, a slow, introspective style, with the strings playing in a high register, that often evokes the pealing of bells.
