A Lunchtime carillon concert. Free. Free Parking in the lot in front of the tower on Euclid Avenue also along Bellflower Rd behind the tower, a great place to hear the concert.
Friday concerts happen through November 22.

George Leggiero, University Circle Carillonneur

I
Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra & Jet Schouten
Healing Bells*

II
Gary White
Reflections for Carillon (1965)

III
Willem Vogel (1958)
Theme and 13 Variations

IV
Johan Franco
Toccata No. 10

V
Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein II
You’ll Never Walk Alone

VI
Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra & Jet Schouten
Healing Bells

*Healing Bells is being premiered on carillons world-wide this weekend. On Thursday , 21 May, at noon local time around the world this piece is being played as a musical response to our current pandemic. The composers explain that the Ukrainian folk tune “Plyve Kacha” with it’s lamenting quality is a tribute to those who have suffered and and those who have died of COVID-19. The spiraling motive throughout the piece is a musical representation of the COVID-19 virus. The tolling bell represents the Healing Bell that many have believed could ward off and eradicate disease. In the course of the piece, the viral spirals are weakened and subdued by the drone until the virus is knocked away note by note followed by a stately conclusion of the folk tune lament.

The carillon can be heard from the grounds around the tower including the Case Western Reserve Campus behind the tower away from the Euclid Avenue traffic noise. Concerts are rain or shine and your car is also a place to hear the concert. Horn honking is an accepted form of applause at the end of the concert.

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