TOWER INSIDE THE SINGING TOWER CLOCK MUSIC DAILY CARILLON MUSIC Architect: Milton B. Medary (Philadelphia) Announcing the hour strike: MAY 26, 2020 Lake Wales Nocturne (excerpt) Purpose: To house the carillon; serve as a Johan Franco centerpiece for the Gardens; the private Carillon Concerts at 1:00 and 3:00 p.m. use of the Bok family 9:00 Prelude Johann Sebastian Bach Built: 1927-1929 7 9:30 Sarabande (for carillon) Benoit Franssen Height: 205 feet (62.5 meters) 10:00 Somber Pavane (for carillon) Ronald Barnes Weight: 5,500 tons (5,000 metric tons) 6 10:30 Andante Joseph H. Fiocco Structure: Steel frame with brick walls; outer facing 5 of pink and gray Georgia marble and 11:00 Spring Morning (for carillon) Geert D’hollander Florida coquina, a limestone of shell and 4 coral fragments Sorrowing Foundation: 118 reinforced concrete piles, 13-24 feet 11:30 Andante (for carillon) Ronald Barnes (4-7 meters) underground with a concrete 3 cap of 2.5 feet (0.8 meter) 12:00 Prelude VI (for carillon) Matthias vanden Gheyn Sculpture: Lee Lawrie (New York City); herons at the top, eagles at the base of the bellchamber; 12:30 Chaconne * Auguste Durant all sculptures were carved on-site CONCERT Colorful Grilles near the top: 1:00 Ceramic tiles designed by J.H. Dulles 2 Allen (Philadelphia) 2:00 Dreaming (for carillon) Geert D’hollander Brass Door and Wrought-iron Gates with Birds: 1 2:30 Andante (for carillon) Ioannes de Gruijtters Samuel Yellin (Philadelphia); depicts the Biblical story of Creation 3:00 CONCERT 1. Founder’s Room 4. Anton Brees Carillon Inscription under the Sundial: Library This Singing Tower with its adjacent 2. Chao Research Center 4:00 Waltz Edvard Grieg Sanctuary was dedicated and presented (Archives) 5. Carillonneur’s Studio to the American people by Calvin 3. Maintenance Workshop 6. Keyboard Room 4:30 Cortege (for carillon) John Courter Coolidge, President of the United States, 7. Carillon (60 bells) February 1, 1929. 5:00 La Volta William Byrd CARILLON 5:30 Solveig’s Song * Edvard Grieg Bellfounder: John Taylor Bellfounders, Ltd. (Loug Is the Tower ever open to the Public? Adaptations for carillon of melodies or of music written for hborough, England) Members at the Donor level and above can other instruments have been made by the recitalist, except view the Founder's Room on one of four for those arrangers identified by the following: Size: 60 bronze bells tours conducted each year. * Anton Brees Bell weight: Smallest bell at 16 lbs. 863-676-1408 | LAKE WALES, FL Largest bell at 11+ tons (10+ metric tons) Total of 63+ tons (57+ metric tons) BOKTOWERGARDENS.ORG Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. Geert D'hollander Live performance by Geert D’hollander Live performance by Geert D’hollander Resident Carillonneur Evergreens Evergreens La Vie en Rose Luis Gugliemi Ev’ry Day of my Life Jimmie Crane Belgian-American composer and You Are My Sunshine Jimmie Davis I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing The Hillside carillonneur Geert D’hollander Fly Me To The Moon Bart Howard Singers was named Bok Tower Gardens’ Love Me Tender Elvis Presley Cheek to Cheek Top Hat Irving Berlin fourth full-time carillonneur in October 2012. Popular T.V. Series Popular T.V. Series He has studied, performed, taught, arranged and composed carillon music for more than 35 years. The Flintstones Hoyt Curtin I’ll be There for You Friends Michael Skloff The Muppet Show Jim Henson Happy Days Charles Fox Geert has held permanent and guest teaching Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (Mr. Rodgers) Fred Broadway positions of carillon performance and composition Rodgers Tomorrow Annie Charles Strouse at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium, On the Sunny Side of the Street Jimmy McHugh Disney the Dutch Carillon School in Amersfoort and at the The Circle of Life The Lion King Elton John University College Roosevelt in Middelburg, both Musical Can You Feel the Love Tonight The Lion King in The Netherlands. From 1997-1999, Carillonneur I Feel Pretty West Side Story Leonard Bernstein Under the Sea The Little Mermaid Alan Menken and Professor of Carillon at the University of A Spoonful of Sugar Mary Poppins Robert Sherman California at Berkeley, succeeding Ronald Barnes. Musical To Conclude I Could Have Dancel All Night My Fair Lady Fr. Loewe What a Wonderful World Bob Thiele He has made numerous carillon arrangements and To Conclude composed more than 50 works for carillon, published What a Wonderful World Bob Thiele world-wide. He was first prize winner and more .than 30 international competitions for carillon or composition; was awarded the University of California Berkeley Medal for “Distinguished Service to the Carillon”, and the prestigious Dutch “ANV-Visser Neerlandia Prize” with his carillon composition “Ciacona”. He frequently gives Master Classes in Europe and the USA and performs all over the world..