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.
You can also tune in on your computer, tablet, or smart phone through our YouTube channel
George Leggiero, Carillonneur
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Program
Jennifer Conner
McGaffin Flourish (2018)
I
Hamilton Harty
A Little Fantasy and Fugue (1935)
II
George Friederic Handel (1685-1559)
arr. R. Lodine
From Water Music
Hornpipe
Air
Menuet I and II
III
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) arr. D. Cook
Venetian Gondola Song, Op. 11, no. 6
IV
Paul Simon arr. R. Perfecto
Bridge Over Troubled Water
V
Two Folk Songs arr L. ‘t Hart
Three Fishers Went Sailing
What Will We Do With a Drunken Sailor?
VI
Larry Baker
Within the Rain (2021 World Premier)
Larry Baker taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music from 1973 to 1993. He also directed the New Music Ensemble, Performance Group and Reconnaissance, conducting numerous performances and premiers in Cleveland and throughout the United States. He has received multiple grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bascom Little Fund, the American Music Center, the Ohio Arts Council as well as ASCAP; in 1983, he received the Cleveland Arts Prize for Music.
Before each selection a bell will toll the number in the program.
This is the last Friday Lunchtime Concert in 2019.
These concerts will return in January.
December 5, 3pm Annual Holiday CircleFest Carillon Concert
December 20-31 12:15 Weekdays. Informal music for the season.
December 24 7pm Annual Christmas Eve Carillon Concert.
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 program.
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