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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KANSAS CITY, Mo — As the Country Club Plaza continues efforts to grow and revitalize the district, a historic sound returned ...

The sound of the RIT carillon bells will be heard throughout campus for the first time in nearly three years on Friday. In the fall of 2014, the old carillon bell system played for its final time. The ...

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 ...

A worker at the Dutch bell foundry Royal Eijsbouts in the Netherlands cleans a recently cast bell. Weighing 7,595 pounds, it's the largest new bell destined for the Netherlands Carillon in Arlington, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a quiet afternoon, the air suddenly fills with sound — bells unfolding into melody rather than noise. The music doesn’t come ...

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.

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 ...

Just before his death in 1482, the Flemish poet and chronicler Anthonis de Roovere recorded a technological marvel he witnessed in, of all places, a belfry in the sleepy fishing town of Dunkirk: A ...

Rising 175 feet in the air, looking out on the ocean and mountains beyond and the campus down below, UC Santa Barbara’s Storke Tower is a familiar beacon, an iconic landmark imbued with local history ...

Reporter Julie Rose unravels the unique art of the carillon. A carillonneur is someone who, at a wedding or funeral, hammers away on wooden pegs with their fists and hands to coax music from large ...