Almost every weekday for nearly 100 years, the massive bells of the Mayo Clinic's carillon have rung in song from the tower of the Plummer Building in downtown Rochester. Now they can be heard around ...
The word “carillon” is pronounced /KEH-ruh-laan/. According to Etymonline, the word “carillon” comes from French, ...
As an organ is to a piano, so is a carillon to an ordinary set of bells. Numbering at least 24 (covering two octaves), the bells of a carillon are tuned with the sharps & flats of the chromatic scale, ...
Twice each day, the campus echoes with grand, melancholy music. And though we can probably all point to Rockefeller Chapel as the source, most of us know very little about the mysterious bells and ...
WHITEMARSH — The annual carillon concerts at St. Thomas’ Church, Whitemarsh are set to return July 5. But this year, the local congregation has expanded its community music program by adding drum ...
BREMERTON — 'Twas the night before Christmas, with snow flurries in sight, a bank tower in Bremerton, blasted notes of 'Silent Night.' Fifty years ago Friday, Fred Schoneman's dream came true. After ...
The carillon bells are ringing again at First Presbyterian Church! After upwards of 30 years of silence, the bells are back, creating a perfect harmony with its host neighborhood. The installation of ...
To some the sound of popping corks is music of the sweetest; others fancy the tones of their own voice as reverberated by the tiled walls of a bathroom; to a man who truly loves his work even the ...
The carillon, man. The carillon. It’s what all the cool kids are playing these days. It’s replaced the melodica as the current quirky musical flavor of the month. But this instrument is a bit more ...