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 ...

UChicago’s Guild of Carillonists uphold the legacy of the world’s “de facto biggest instrument,” playing songs spanning from Errol Garner to Chappell Roan.

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Once, the carillon bells would sound across the town markets of Europe's Low Country, amid the chatter of merchants and the shrieking of farm creatures. Today, thousands of these instruments — a bit ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every day at 5 p.m., rich melodies roll over the lawns of West Campus, washing over the masses typing on laptops at tables in the Bryan Center plaza all the way to students tossing frisbees in the ...

The Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs — the group that plays the Harkness Tower bells — put on a “100 Years of Women in Carillon” concert on Sunday as part of a worldwide celebration of the ...

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 ...

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