Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Rising 175 feet ...

The 120-foot Campanile, contains the 53-bell carillon and was dedicated on May 27, 1951, and rededicated on April 26, 1996, following an extensive renovation. Elizabeth Egbert Berghout, is the Kansas ...

More than 150 carillonists from all over the world convened at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel in June for performances and presentations of research and historical studies as part of the 79th Annual ...

Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon in Springfield's Washington Park Credit: Ryan Smith It can be lonely at the top—and it almost always is at the top of the monolithic musical instruments known as ...

His carillon instrument is a 19-ton set of 52 bells. It's housed in a 250-foot tower with stainless steel exterior columns shaped like crystals. [Sound of carillon music: Americana-style folk tune] ...

It can be lonely at the top—particularly from the great heights of the unusual musical instruments known as carillons. Or so it seemed for Hunter Chase, the UIC graduate student who was one of only ...

When you think “church bell ringer,” you might think of the hunchback Quasimodo of fiction and film. The modern bell ringer doesn’t swing from ropes, but rather plays a keyboard made of wooden keys ...

As a parent with 5-year-old twins in Linn-Benton Community College’s cooperative preschool in Corvallis, Mark Miller is always on the lookout for good field trip opportunities. So when he learned ...

In 1953, a colossal musical instrument called a carillon — made up of 47 bells and collectively weighing 12 tons — made a journey via ship from Holland, through the Panama Canal to Seattle and ...

The Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs — the group that plays the Harkness Tower bells — put on a “100 Years of Women in Carillon” concert on Sunday as part of a worldwide celebration of the ...

Upon entering Century Tower, a cold breeze clashes with the outside heat. The four walls of brick have dust an inch thick. The winding staircases are dimly lit and adorned with cobwebs. The air smells ...