ROCHESTER, Minnesota ( WCCO) -- For nearly a century, the Mayo Clinic carillon has been making music in downtown Rochester, ...
FORT WASHINGTON — When the Catherine Colt Dickey carillon was dedicated at St. Thomas’ Whitemarsh Episcopal Church in 1974, a dozen eggs averaged 58 cents, a loaf of bread 28 cents, a gallon of milk ...
At Washington’s Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, carillonneur Robert Grogan has filled the sky with music after Mass for decades — a resounding echo of Easter joy. Robert ...
FORT WASHINGTON — The late Janet Dundore was fond of quoting mentor Frank Law’s quip that playing the carillon was best-suited to someone who was “half crazy, half monkey.” Feisty and unfailingly ...
In 1876, Eugene Bowen graduated from Tufts College known by peers and faculty as the most prominent bell ringer of his class. Goddard Chapel had not yet been built, and a single bell rang atop Ballou ...
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 ...
I only had one question when I learned that my old school was hosting a carillon concert on a refreshingly cool Wednesday afternoon in July: What is a carillon? About all I knew was that it had ...
Bells will be ringing in Tempe Friday when ASU's newly renovated symphonic carillon returns to campus. Students and faculty may remember the instrument, a set of 148 chimes played by a keyboard, as ...
The carillon in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel is like a campus rumor you need to hear to believe. The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon is composed of 72 bells, made of over 100 tons of bronze ...
A massive and rare instrument with 49 enormous bells — some weighing 3,400 pounds — is tucked away in a grand bell tower in the city of Frederick, Maryland. Every Sunday at 12:30 p.m., the city’s only ...
On a quiet afternoon, the air suddenly fills with sound — bells unfolding into melody rather than noise. The music doesn’t come from a radio or a passing parade, but from high above, where bronze ...