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 ...

In 1876, Eugene Bowen graduated from Tufts College known by peers and faculty as the most prominent bell ringer of his class.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Rising 175 feet ...

As a parent with 5-year-old twins in Linn-Benton Community College’s cooperative preschool in Corvallis, Mark Miller is always on the lookout for good field trip opportunities. So when he learned ...

More than 150 carillonists from all over the world convened at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel in June for performances and presentations of research and historical studies as part of the 79th Annual ...

Thomas Rees Memorial Carillon in Springfield's Washington Park Credit: Ryan Smith It can be lonely at the top—and it almost always is at the top of the monolithic musical instruments known as ...

During eight Sundays of the summer, the Cohasset Common and village is turned into a concert hall where the sounds of 57 bells high above the village play some of the most beautiful music anywhere.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... WATCH: Carillonneur Carol Jickling Lens plays some of her favorite tunes At 7:14 p.m. on Christmas Eve, majestic bells will ring the notes of “Silent Night” ...

It can be lonely at the top—particularly from the great heights of the unusual musical instruments known as carillons. Or so it seemed for Hunter Chase, the UIC graduate student who was one of only ...

When you think “church bell ringer,” you might think of the hunchback Quasimodo of fiction and film. The modern bell ringer doesn’t swing from ropes, but rather plays a keyboard made of wooden keys ...