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No. 85 April 2011 News Carillon www.gcna.org Newsletter of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America Features GCNA and WCF to Celebrate at Michigan Congress by Dennis Curry 2011 Joint GCNA and Facebook group, bringing our art into the 21st century. WCF Congress. .1 Check back often at www.gcna.org, Nominations for www.carillon.org, and GCNA Board of Facebook: Carillon Congress Directors . 4 2011. This is everyone’s congress, so suggestions and comments are always 2011 Summer welcomed. E-mail us at Recital Series . 8 [email protected]. See you soon! Plus Congress at a Glance, accommodation choices, and a registration form are Calendar . 3 Kirk in the Hills found on pages 14 and 15 of this issue. Overtones ome celebrate our great carillon her- Regional Notes . .11 Citage. This upcoming joint GCNA- A New Opportunity WCF congress in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., Take Notes promises to be the largest gathering of car- for Professional Carillon Education . 17 illonneurs and enthusiasts on record, and we have cause to celebrate: the 75th anniversary Advancement Installations, of the GCNA, the 75th anniversary of the Renovations, Baird carillon, and a kick-off of the next 500 by Margo Halsted Dedications . .19 years of the carillon. Full details continue to be developed, but this congress will be one he Associate Carillonneur Evaluation of the finest and most diverse yet—from the Foreign News . 22 Ad Hoc Committee is happy to an- wealth of instruments, to stimulating and en- T nounce the development of the Associate gaging presentations and workshops, to Notices . 25 Carillonneur Evaluation (ACE). The new strengthening our camaraderie. process is designed for those GCNA Asso- The Michigan carillonneurs are working In Memoriam . 26 ciate members who are already playing the hard to make this a truly fitting occasion. carillon regularly and would like to have Updates will be posted on the GCNA and feedback and recognition from their peers. WCF websites. We also have established a see Professional Advancement, page 7 1 Carillon News is published each April and November by the Guild of Carillon News Carillonneurs in North America, a California non-profit corporation. GCNA Officers: GCNA Committee listings Dave Johnson, President Archives Bill De Turk, chair Deadlines: Submissions for publication [email protected] must be received by February 15 for the Barnes Andrea McCrady, Robin spring issue and September 15 for the Dennis Curry, Vice-President [email protected] Scholarship Austin, chairs, David fall issue. Submissions should be type- Fund Hunsberger, Lisa Lonie, written and double-spaced and are appre- Dianne Heard, Recording Secretary Janet Tebbel ciated by e-mail. Send materials to: Jury John Agraz, John Bordley, Tim Sleep, Corresponding Secretary Arla Jo Gideon, Roy [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Hamlin Johnson, Loyd Mark Lee David Hunsberger, Treasurer Lott, Mary McFarland, [email protected] 410 South Michigan Ave. Suite 528 alternate, David Osborn, alternate Chicago, IL 60605 Board of Directors: (312) 596-4022 Dennis Curry (2011) Brochure Julia Littleton, chair David Hunsberger (2011) Steven Ball Opinions expressed in Carillon News Carlo van Ulft (2011) are not necessarily those of the editors, Bulletin John Bordley, chair nor do they necessarily carry the en- Linda Dzuris (2012) Laura Ellis (2012) Laurel Buckwalter, dorsement of the GCNA. 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Shadinger, C. Taylor, B. Thomas, 701 Sheridan Road Evaluation K. Van Assche, C. van Ulft, Back page Evanston, IL 60202 Margo Halsted, chair, Don photo: Denise R. Halverson (847) 328-2333 (h) Cook, Ellen Dickinson, Design and Production [email protected] Sue Bergren, Jim Fackenthal, Mark Lee Linda Dzuris, Jim Fackenthal Printing Errata D & R Press, Elmwood Park, IL On page 2 of Carillon News, No. 84, Fall Finance John Widmann, chair 2010, Jennifer Lory-Moran was inadvertently Committee Larry Weinstein Copyright 2011 by The Guild of Carillonneurs in ommitted from Photo Credits. North America. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited. All On page 15 of Carillon News, No. 84, Fall Franco John Gouwens, chair items submitted for publication become the property 2010, the gentleman pictured with Jill Forrest Composition Lee Cobb, Jeff Davis, of the GCNA, except that contributors assume liabil- is incorrectly identified as her husband John ity for copyrighted photographs or music examples Fund Thomas Lee, Tin-Shi Tam submitted, and assume responsibility for claims McKerral. He is in fact Reginald Walker. therefrom made against the publisher. For permis- Carillon News regrets the errors. sion to reprint contact the co-editors at the address see Committees, page 3 listed above. 2 last of these designations certainly unique for a college president. When prospective from the President donors hesitated to make a financial com- Calendar mitment, fearing the college might be un- able to find anyone to perform on the 50th International Carillon instrument, Ogilby didn’t miss a beat. “I’ll play it,” he said. Trinity got its carillon, and Festival, Springfield, Ill. Ogilby kept his promise. June 5–12, 2011 In October 1931, Ogilby had begun com- muting to New York to study with Kamiel Midwest Regional Carillon Lefevere. By 1933 he had learned that car- Conference, illon playing was an art; and based on the several guest recitalists he had engaged, he Springfield, Ill. must have realized that it was also an indi- June 6–7, 2011 vidual art. He saw that because carillons were rare, most carillonneurs labored in iso- 2011 Joint GCNA and t’s an understatement to say that for car- lation, not knowing what others were doing. WCF Congress, “Surely,” he thought, “there would be ad- Iillonneurs worldwide, this will be a very Bloomfield Hills, Mich. special summer. The 2011 GCNA-WCF vantages in professional association.” In Congress, which will take place in Bloom- September 1934 he invited some 30 caril- June 26–July 1, 2011 field Hills, Mich., June 26–July 1, is de- lonneurs and other interested persons to scribed elsewhere in this issue. The meet at Trinity the following month. At the Texas Regional Meeting congress will offer recitals, professional conclusion, all agreed to meet again, and Dallas, Texas two years later they did so. presentations, and opportunities for social October 28–29, 2011 interaction in a setting that I earlier charac- Recalling that meeting, the 1936 Ottawa terized as “a hosting and showcasing op- Congress at which the Guild of Carillon- portunity without precedent.” I’m sure that neurs in North America was formally es- many of you have already registered. I en- tablished, Percival Price described the Since then, 75 years have passed. Much courage everyone to do so promptly, fully Canadian capital as “a relatively small city has changed, yet much remains the same. confident that this 69th Congress, which will that loved parties. In those heady first We may not labor in quite the isolation that celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Guild years of commonwealth status it prided it- President Ogilby once described. But the of Carillonneurs in North America, will be self in showing the diplomatic graces that truth is, on most days we are alone in our a glorious, long-remembered event. being part of the Empire had instilled in it. pursuits. Eventually, each of us needs once On the door leading to the Trinity Col- But we were musicians, a type whose odd- again to break out of our isolation and, lege carillon in Hartford, Conn., is an in- ities were a little less acceptable than now, through some means of contact with an- scription that reads, “Here in the year 1934 and I feared there might be opposition to other carillonneur, be reminded and reas- Remsen Brinckerhoff Ogilby first called to- our running at will up and down the Peace sured about what actually matters. We need gether those in North America who take de- Tower, symbol of a proud young nation.” each other.