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Special Sunday Afternoon Concert by Michelle Lam

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.
Attending in person:
Pre-Concert Talk at 3:15pm

You can also tune in on your computer, tablet, or smart phone through our YouTube channel to watch the concert at 4pm

Michelle Lam, Carillonist
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Reflections from Massachusetts
July 3 - A Hall of Mirrors Jenny O. Johnson (b. 1978)
  i. the stained glass of your chapel
  ii. stillness and symmetry

Settings by Sally Slade Warner (1932-2009)
The Bells of Aberdovey (Welsh folk song)
Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonnie Doon (Scottish folk song) 

Reflections from Netherlands and Belgium
Triptiek Johanna Bordewijk-Roepman (1892-1971)
 I. Nazareth
 II. Bethlehem
III. Jerusalem 

Ave Maria Adèle Colson (1905-1997)

Reflections from South Korea
Traditional Korean, arr. HyoJin Moon
Parang-Sae Toccata
Sae Ta Ryung Variations 

Ari Ari Hyo-won Woo (b. 1974)

Reflections from Chicago and New York City
Florence Price (1887-1953), arr. Tiffany Ng
A Pleasant Thought (1951)
Allegretto 
Little Melody

Tower City Jessie Montgomery (b. 1981)

Program Notes 
This concert is inspired by and in tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who said in a 2015 interview, “When I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, 'When there are nine,' people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.”

 If you would like to learn more about the women composers and arrangers featured in this program, please visit linktr.ee/michellelam.

Michelle S. Lam is the carillonist at Grosse Pointe Memorial Church, and regularly performs as a noontime recitalist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has been playing carillon for over ten years, starting from when she was an undergraduate at Wellesley College. She won the 2020 GCNA Barnes Grant with Dr. Elisa Tersigni for a project studying the current state of carillon culture in North America. While she is not playing music, Michelle is doing research in international trade and labor to complete her PhD in economics at the University of Michigan. Michelle's hobbies include crafting tea-based drinks, collecting postcards, and 

hiking.

 
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