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THEBELLSOFSUMMER SUNDAYS at 5 PM | JULY 23 THROUGH AUGUST 20, 2017 Er Optimal Listening Areas THE 52ND ANNUAL ROCKEFELLER CARILLON FESTIVAL THEBELLSOFSUMMER SUNDAYS AT 5 PM | JULY 23 THROUGH AUGUST 20, 2017 E. 58TH S. WOODLAWN S. UNIVERSITY E. 59TH MIDWAY PLAISANCE NORTH A GUIDE TO STRATEGIC PICNIC BLANKET PLACEMENT Te carillon can be heard throughout the campus, but to hear the bells at their best situate yourself within a range of 150 to 400 feet from the tower. Te lawn just north of Rockefeller, the Booth School of Business courtyard across Woodlawn Avenue, and the west parking lot and pathways ofer optimal listening areas. THE BELLS OF SUMMER THE 52ND ANNUAL ROCKEFELLER CARILLON FESTIVAL 1 WELCOME TO THE BELLS OF SUMMER! You are encouraged to bring your summer picnic and blanket or picnic chairs to the east lawn, and enjoy the beautiful sound of the bells, played by virtuoso carillonneurs from around the world. In the event of inclement weather, you are welcome to take your picnic indoors, and to listen to the recital broadcast into the Chapel (with both audio and video link). Tis 52nd season of Te Bells of Summer is made possible by your generous and ongoing donations. All proceeds from our gift shop, set up during the concerts at the east entrance to the Chapel, directly beneft the carillon program. COME BACK ANOTHER DAY FOR A TOWER TOUR! University Carillonneur Joey Brink and members of the University false ceiling (the attic, via a catwalk), through the mechanical of Chicago Guild of Carillonneurs lead tours of the tower on room housing the original carillon regulator clock as well as weekdays. Tours depart at 11:30 am and 4:30 pm, Tuesday through the pneumatically-driven mechanism of the quarter and hour Friday, from the south entrance of the chapel. Tower tours run chimes, past the largest bell and its thirteen friends, and thence throughout the year, with short breaks between academic quarters. into the playing cabin, 235 steps up, where the carillonneur Te ascent is 271 steps in total. Children who are plays the mighty instrument. Beyond the cabin, another short old enough to climb 271 steps are welcome, and must be winding staircase leads the way to the top of the tower and accompanied by a parent or guardian (at a ratio of one adult to magnifcent 360 degree views of Chicago, Lake Michigan, two children). Te climb up the spiral stone staircase is taken northern Indiana and the port, the Michigan shoreline, and at a leisurely pace and is not recommended for those who are of course the University itself. It’s worth doing at every season claustrophobic. Along the way you’ll walk above the Chapel’s of the year! THE BELLS OF SUMMER 52ND SEASON Sunday July 23 Jon Lehrer Yale University, now at Vancouver, British Columbia page 4 Sunday July 30 Parker Ludwig Creighton University School of Medicine 6 Sunday August 6 Lynnli Wang Yale University, now at the Arlington National Cemetery Netherlands Carillon 8 Sunday August 13 Roy Kroezen City Carillonneur, Centralia, IL 10 Sunday August 20 Linda Dzuris University Carillonneur, Clemson University 12 2 ROCKEFELLER MEMORIAL CHAPEL THE BELLS OF SUMMER ABOUT THE CARILLON Te Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon and its High in the tower, the keyboard gives the carillonneur complete sister instrument at Riverside Church in New York City, both mechanical control of all 72 bells. Te carillon keys connect via dating from the early 1930s, were the masterworks of the Gillett wires to clappers that strike the bells from the inside. Because & Johnston bell foundry of Croydon, England. Carillons of this the mechanism is entirely mechanical, the keyboard is touch- size had never before been made, and have not been made again sensitive and the performer can produce a full dynamic range, since that time. Te Chicago instrument, comprising 72 bells from very soft to very loud, much like a piano. and 100 tons of bronze, is the single largest musical instrument University Carillonneur Joey Brink and his students ever built. Its bells were cast over a three-year period and perform twice daily during the academic year. Tey ofer include a massive 18.5 ton bourdon sounding a low C#. a distinct and varied program each day, featuring classical Te carillon was installed during the summer of 1932, a transcriptions, contemporary compositions, jazz improvisations, year after the New York instrument, and was dedicated during popular arrangements, adaptations of flm and TV themes, and Tanksgiving week of that year. dozens of requests of all kinds from our community. Carillon In 2006–08, Wylie Crawford, now senior University song requests can be made online at rockefeller.uchicago.edu. Carillonneur, spearheaded one of the fnest carillon renovations Te University of Chicago Guild of Carillonneurs, under in modern history with the Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry of the leadership of Joey Brink, is one of three music programs Asten in Te Netherlands. In addition to conducting a complete ofered by Rockefeller Chapel to students who audition overhaul of the carillon’s mechanism and keyboard, Eijsbouts for membership, the other two being the organ and choral replaced all of the clappers and brought the 46 smallest bells programs. Fifteen students haunt the tower and ring the back to their foundry in Te Netherlands to be retuned before bells for all of campus throughout the year—a mix of installing them back in our tower. undergraduates, graduate students, and professional students. Te carillon bells can be played in three diferent ways, Guild members perform weekly during the academic quarters, all of which you will hear this afternoon. Before the concert marking their progress in quarterly programmed recitals. As begins, at approximately 4:45 pm, fve of the largest bells ring performers on the most public of instruments, carillonneurs in a swinging peal. Motors that connect directly to carriages need separate instruments for practice in order to hone their that house the bells cause the bells to swing back and forth, skills and repertoire without subjecting the entire community creating a thunderously loud and joyous sound that can be to their studies. Brink and the students work daily in the heard more than a mile away. When the bells have come to rest, catacombs of Rockefeller on our two modern electronic practice just after 4:59 pm, an electro-pneumatic mechanism rings the carillons, with the students preparing for the examinations of Westminster Chime melody followed by the strike of the fve the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America. o’clock hour. Tis automatic mechanism, installed with the bells by Gillett & Johnston in 1932, is capable of ringing nine of the largest bells, and is controlled by a computer in the tower. And fnally, at 5 pm the carillonneur begins the performance on the carillon keyboard. UNIVERSITY CARILLONNEURS 1932–53 Frederick L. Marriott (University organist and carillonneur) 1953–60 James R. Lawson 1960–69 Daniel Robins 1969–84 Robert Lodine 1984–2015 Wylie Crawford 2015–present Joey Brink THE BELLS OF SUMMER THE 52ND ANNUAL ROCKEFELLER CARILLON FESTIVAL 3 CARILLON SPECIFICATIONS Bell Actual Keyboard Weight Diameter Weight Bell Actual Keyboard Weight Diameter Weight # Note Note (pounds) (inches) (tons) # Note Note (pounds) (inches) (tons) 1 C#0 F36,926 117 18.5 37 D F# 84 2 D#G25,613 104.5 12.8 38 D#G 72 3 EG# 20,660 99 10.3 39 EG# 62 4 FA18,577 94 9.3 40 FA57 5 F#A# 15,736 89 7.9 41 F#A# 52 6 GB12,621 84 6.3 42 GB43 7 G#C1 10,973 79.5 5.5 43 G#C4 39 11.5 8 AC# 9,001 75 4.5 44 AC# 35 9 A#D7,591 71 3.8 45 A#D34 10 BD# 6,495 67 3.2 46 BD# 33 11 C1E5,373 63 2.7 47 C4E29.5 12 C#F4,759 59.5 2.4 48 C#F20.5 13 DF# 3,725 56 1.9 49 DF# 17 14 D#G3,227 53 1.6 50 D#G14.25 15 EG# 2,689 50 1.3 51 EG# 13 16 FA2,308.5 47 1.2 52 FA13 17 F#A# 1,895 44.5 0.9 53 F#A# 13 7.25 18 GB1,647 42 0.8 54 G B12.75 19 G#C2 1,513 40.5 0.8 55 G#C5 12.5 20 AC# 1,239.5 38 0.6 56 AC# 12.5 21 A#D1,008 36 0.5 57 A#D 12.5 22 BD# 914 34 0.5 58 BD# 12.5 23 C2E 723 32 0.4 59 C5E 12.5 24 C#F 629 0.3 60 C#F12 25 DF# 557 0.3 61 DF# 12 26 D#G 466 0.2 62 D#G12 27 EG# 380 0.2 63 EG# 12 6 28 FA 350 24.75 0.2 64 FA12 29 F#A# 322 0.2 65 F#A# 11.5 30 GB 265 0.1 66 GB11.5 31 G#C3 207 0.1 67 G#C6 11 32 AC# 168 0.1 68 A C# 11 33 A# D 146.5 18.5 0.1 69 A# D11 34 BD# 133.5 0.1 70 BD# 10.5 35 C3E 119 0.1 71 C6E10.5 36 C#F 96.5 72 C#F10.5 5.25 LEARNING TO PLAY THE CARILLON We have a lively carillon studio of ffteen students. We invite receive seven weeks of lessons with current carillon students, all interested students (enrolled full-time in a degree-granting beginning on the practice carillons in the catacombs and program at the University of Chicago) to join us in the autumn culminating in an audition in the tower late in the quarter.
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