Carillon Guild member Mary-Beth Wohlfert made this fantastic compilation of our trip to Belgium and the Netherlands. Thanks, Mary-Beth! 🔔 (Part 2/2)
The MSU alma mater ”MSU Shadows” played by Carson Landry before yesterday’s vigil.💚🤍
Cloud Lullaby for trombone & carillon
Our video of "Cloud Lullaby" for trombone and carillon by Alison Yun-Fei Jiang, performed by professors David L Jackson and Tiffany Ng at the Lurie Carillon on Indigenous People's Day. "In late May of 2021," Jiang writes, "the remains of 215 Indigenous children were discovered at a former Canadian residential school site. Struck by the news among many other horrid and violent events since the pandemic had started, I wrote 'Cloud Lullaby' in an utmost personal manner. The piece is a literal lullaby, an elegy dedicated to the Indigenous children as well as those who lost their lives during the pandemic." #carillon #IndigenousPeoplesDay2022
Today, we honor all who have served or are serving in the military. The noon #VeteransDay concert features Carlo Van Ulft's medley of "The Caissons Go Rolling Along," "The Marine's Hymn," and "Anchors Aweigh," as well as Wesley Arai's "Semper Fidelis" and Prof. Ng's "Eternal Father, Strong to Save," performed by Michael Ngan (Architecture, SMTD). The observation chamber is open during the recital for these beautiful misty views. Take the elevator to the highest floor possible (floor 8), and then climb two flights of stairs (39 steps) to the bell chamber (floor 10).
Sin-Yu Deng & Ancel Neeley remix the Westminster Quarters
The second of Thursday's remixed Westminster Quarters! Students in Prof. John Granzow's Sound Synthesis (PAT 462) course Sin-Yu Deng and Ancel Neeley transformed the 4:15 pm signal into this unexpected and ear-tickling experience. ⏰🔔🔊 Thanks Performing Arts Technology at the University of Michigan for rethinking the way we hear time!
Annabella Paolucci & David Minnix remix the Westminster Quarters
Did you catch the extra-special Westminster Quarters on Thursday? Students in Prof. John Granzow's Sound Synthesis (PAT 462) course Annabella Paolucci and David Minnix transformed the 4 pm hour signal into this magical experience as an airplane traced a trail overhead. 🕓🔔🔊 Thanks Performing Arts Technology at the University of Michigan!
Thanks Anna Kasprzycka for coming all the way from Poland to play virtuosic Philip Glass and more hypnotic contemporary music!
Remember when students in Performance Systems (Performing Arts Technology 461) took over the Baird Carillon under Profs. Granzow and Ng's direction? Here's a clip of Margaret Kogos's "Regenerate," performed live by Eva Albalghiti (@UM_CEE grad student)!
#carillon #newmusic #AnnArbor
Remember when students in Performance Systems (Performing Arts Technology at the University of Michigan 461) and the carillon studio took over the Baird Carillon with Prof. John Granzow? Here's a clip of Margaret Kogos's "Regenerate," performed live by Eva Albalghiti (U-M CEE: Civil and Environmental Engineering grad student), from that day! #carillon #newmusic #AnnArbor
Ari im Sokhak
Thanks alumna Melissa Coppola for this beautiful arrangement of Armenian lullaby "Ari im Sokhak," which Mikayla Kurkjin performed today at Burton Tower on Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
More on the lullaby from Dr. Coppola: "Sometimes called the first genocide of the 20th century, the Armenian genocide refers to the physical annihilation of Armenian Christian people living in the Ottoman Empire from spring 1915 through autumn 1916. There were approximately 1.5 million Armenians living in the multiethnic Ottoman Empire in 1915. At least 664,000 and possibly as many as 1.2 million died during the genocide, either in massacres and individual killings, or from systematic ill-treatment, exposure, and starvation.
In the years following the Armenian Genocide, a campaign known as “One Armenian - One Piece of Gold” went into the Middle East to rescue Armenian orphans. Armenian children who had forgotten their native language and were forcibly Islamized were identified by their instinctive responses to familiar lullabies sung by members of the team. In this way, several thousand children were brought back into Armenian communities. The Aurora Prize, an annual award to recognize individuals for humanitarian work, honored this project at their 2017 awards ceremony with a performance of Ari Im Sokhak. The audience stood and joined in singing to acknowledge and thank the people who led the campaign.
“Ari im Sokhak” is an Armenian lullaby with text by Raphael Patkanian, an Armenian poet. The poem was written in the late 19th century during the Turco-Russian War, but little information is available the melody’s origin. In the lullaby “Ari Im Sokhag,” a mother implores birds to come sing to her crying child. A nightingale comes and sings of chants and melodies, but the child continues to cry, as he does not want to be a priest. A crow comes and sings of gold and riches, but the child does not want to be a merchant. A dove comes and sings of grieving, and the chi
Armenian 10/8 medley
Join us at Burton Memorial Tower on Sunday, April 24 at noon for music by graduating Michigan Engineering master's student Mikayla Kurkjian. She'll play Armenian arrangements for Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, including her medley of Armenian 10/8 songs:
Sound on 🔊 to hear @digin.haiganoush (grad student in @michiganengineering) playing her arrangement of the Armenian tune "Tamzara" on the Lurie Carillon. 🔔 Go to Burton Tower this Sunday 4/24 at noon for her recital of Armenian arrangements, composed by herself and @melissacoppolamusic, in recognition of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
#armeniangenocide #armenianmusic #armenianculture #carillon
All I Ask of You (Phantom)
In February, Elizabeth (majors in sociology and creative writing & literature) blogged for Arts at Michigan about her creative process in arranging "All I Ask of You" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" for carillon (http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/ink/2022/02/18/art-biz-with-liz-arranging-for-the-carillon/). Here's a preview of the completed arrangement she'll be performing on Friday at noon. Happy graduation, Elizabeth! 🎓🎓🎓
As Dutch-Flemish Studies marks 50 years at the University of Michigan, activist Mark Charles, of Navajo-Dutch descent, will give the 24th De Vries-VanderKooy Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, March 30th at 7:30 pm in the Hussey Room of the Michigan League. To honor his visit, Tiffany Ng will perform new authorized arrangements of composer Connor Chee's "Navajo Vocables for Piano, Nos. 5-6" on the Baird Carillon to open the program. Here's a preview of "Navajo Vocable for Piano, No. 5". Complete event information:
https://lsa.umich.edu/german/news-events/all-events.detail.html/93446-21704617.html
#umichdutch #carillon #MarkCharles
Marigolds, by V. Virmenych
"Marigolds" by V. Virmenych, arranged by Ukrainian carillonist Iryna Riabchun 🇺🇦 (Аранжування для карильйону "Чорнобривців" В.Вірменича), as performed on Monday's noon concert by Prof. Tiffany Ng 🔔
An excerpt from today's performance of "The Voice in Silence..." (Голос у мовчанні...) by Ukrainian bandura player and composer Oksana Herasymenko, who is based in Lviv. Arrangement by Monika Kazmierczak of Poland. 💙💛
Ukrainian National Anthem and 'Prayer for Ukraine'
Prof. Ng's performance today of the State Anthem of Ukraine (Ще не вмерла України і слава, і воля) by Mykhailo Verbytsky (1815-1870) and 'Prayer for Ukraine (Prayer of the children)' by composer Mykola Lysenko (Мико́ла Віта́лійович Ли́сенко) (1842-1912). 🇺🇦
Jenna Moon: U-M Summer Carillon Concert Series (Monday, August 16)
Burton Memorial Tower, Charles Baird Carillon 💛💙🔔
Program:
00:05 Preludio V by Matthias van den Gheyn
3:30 Processional by Ronald Barnes
9:35 Een Schoon Liedeken by Geert D'hollander
16:35 Four organ works by Florence Price, arranged by Tiffany Ng(Adoration, Little Melody, A Pleasant Thought, Allegretto)
26:50 July 3 - A Hall of Mirrors by Jenny O. Johnson
35:40 Pealing Fire by Libby Larsen
42:50 Lonely by Jonghyun Kim, arranged by Hyo Jin Moon
45:45 Sae-Ta-Ryung, arranged by Hyo Jin Moon
49:45 Tower City by Jessie Montgomery
54:30 Ari Ari by Hyowon Woo
Keiran Cantilina plays the Lurie Carillon
At Lurie Tower, Keiran Cantilina (McGaffin Carillon, Cleveland, OH) performs the sixth of our "7 at 7" Monday night carillon concerts. Bring your picnic blanket to the Eda U. Gerstacker Grove on North Campus!
Please fill out our convenient pre-registration form: https://myumi.ch/ZQWvq. This information will be kept for 21 days after the concert, and will only be used for contact tracing if confirmed COVID-19 cases become associated with the gathering.
BIOGRAPHY:
Keiran Cantilina hails from Stewartsville, New Jersey. He graduated from the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen in 2019 and was a finalist in the Queen Fabiola International Carillon Competition held that same year. Keiran was introduced to bells during his university years, where he played Cornell University's twenty-one bell chime. In graduate school, Keiran studied with Dave Johnson at the House of Hope carillon in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2018-2019, he studied carillon in Belgium with Koen Van Assche with financial support from the Belgian-American Education Foundation. Keiran lives in Cleveland, Ohio where he performs frequently on the McGaffin Carillon.
