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 ...

The sound of carillon bells has been very much a part of Alfred University for more than seven decades. When classes are in session, the carillon is played four times a week, and during the summer ...

The carillon bells went silent sometime in the 80’s, which means that the neighborhood has been quiet for upwards of 30 years. I asked Barbara why the church tower was so important to her ...

“This was just a different keyboard for me,” he said. The carillon has two keyboards, like an organ, and the 48 bells overhead are controlled by wooden hand levers and foot pedals. Notes are ...

J. Samuel “Sam” Hammond served as the University’s carillonneur, playing the carillon, a pitched percussion instrument, in ...

EAST LANSING — Students held each other as the sound of Beaumont Tower's carillon bells rang through the air. The bells chimed at 8:18 p.m. and 8:25 p.m., signaling when MSU students Alexandria ...

They are the city's most accomplished bell ringers, and their instruments are the city's most substantial bells. Fair plays Williams Carillon in Williams Tower, the pinnacle of the University of ...

are the bells—single steeple bells and bundles of carillon bells—playing those old familiar carols that make Christmas . . . Christmas. To men and women of goodwill everywhere, this is the ...