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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Trinity College Bell Tower, where Ellen Dickinson makes the carillon sing. Carillonneur ...

The bells are back at Church in the Wildwood in Green Mountain Falls. The sound of nostalgia, the bells added a musical note to the church’s 135th anniversary on Aug. 25. “We’re especially overjoyed ...

Philadelphia is home to two of the oldest carillons in North America, but these ornate instruments made up of sets of bronze bells remain “hidden in plain sight” in their Germantown and Rittenhouse ...

Music will ring across The Campus Beautiful with a carillon and choir concert at the beginning of December. According to a ...

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 ...

Melodious chimes from Naperville’s Millennium Carillon will be a harbinger of spring this year with the completion of the Moser Tower repair project. The 72 bells have been silent for two years while ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ALTON, Ill. – The bells have been silenced ...

Past the stained glass depictions of St. Mary, St. Elizabeth and St. Peter, he opens a door in the corner, seizes a metal red ladder, climbs the stone bell tower. Mark Babcock, 52, sits at the clavier ...