DING, DONG, BELL. And kindly watch your phrasing. A pianist plays the piano. A flautist plays the flute — though as "The Music Man's" Meredith Willson once pointed out, he ought to play the flaut. And ...

I will never forget the first time that I heard that restored carillon bells ring out at First Presbyterian Church. It was just before the blizzard. I was walking my dogs down Ashland Avenue when I ...

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 ...

As part of the University’s renovation of Rockefeller Chapel, the chapel’s carillon—the second largest in the world—is being dismantled and shipped to Holland where it will undergo a complete ...

For students, faculty and staff on the University of Chicago campus last year, the absence of the carillon bells was noticeable. When the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020, Rockefeller Chapel closed ...

Listener Matthew Phillips plays and tells us about the carillon he plays in Winston-Salem, N.C. When he plays, he hears a lot of noise from the mechanical parts of the device, along with the bells. We ...

From a small space atop Storke Tower, the music Wesley Arai creates on a 61-bell carillon rings out across the UC Santa Barbara campus. Audiences will be treated to a special program Sunday, Aug. 25, ...

Starting in his junior year at Case Western Reserve University, George Leggiero lived in Mather House next to the Church of the Covenant, which rang its 47 carillon bells daily on the quarter hour.

SALISBURY, Md.- The first of 48 carillon bells was installed in Salisbury University's bell tower on Wednesday. The bells will be placed from heaviest to lightest, and the bell that was lifted ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook When we think of live music, we often think of dancing bodies with all eyes focused on the ...