The carillon bells are ringing again at First Presbyterian Church! After upwards of 30 years of silence, the bells are back, creating a perfect harmony with its host neighborhood. The installation of ...

I will never forget the first time that I heard that restored carillon bells ring out at First Presbyterian Church. It was just before the blizzard. I was walking my dogs down Ashland Avenue when I ...

The bells are back at Church in the Wildwood in Green Mountain Falls. The sound of nostalgia, the bells added a musical note to the church’s 135th anniversary on Aug. 25. “We’re especially overjoyed ...

Listener Matthew Phillips plays and tells us about the carillon he plays in Winston-Salem, N.C. When he plays, he hears a lot of noise from the mechanical parts of the device, along with the bells. We ...

I only had one question when I learned that my old school was hosting a carillon concert on a refreshingly cool Wednesday afternoon in July: What is a carillon? About all I knew was that it had ...

Past the stained glass depictions of St. Mary, St. Elizabeth and St. Peter, he opens a door in the corner, seizes a metal red ladder, climbs the stone bell tower. Mark Babcock, 52, sits at the clavier ...

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

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 ...

Melodious chimes from Naperville’s Millennium Carillon will be a harbinger of spring this year with the completion of the Moser Tower repair project. The 72 bells have been silent for two years while ...