Ann & Robert H. Lurie Tower

07/18/2024

Thanks to The Guild of Carillonneurs in North America for the lovely feature! Don't miss our next summer series recital, performed by Canadian carillonist Deborah Hennig on Monday, July 22 at 7 pm 🎶🎶🎶

01/15/2024

POSTPONED due to weather. Thank you for your understanding and watch this space for the new date!

On Monday, Jan. 15 at noon, SMTD presents a special concert on the North Campus bell tower, highlighting the actions MLK invoked during his “I Have A Dream” speech.

I. “To Pray Together”

Precious Lord
He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands
There Is A Balm In Gilead

II. “To Struggle Together”

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round
We Shall Overcome

III. “To Stand Up For Freedom Together”

Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Freedom
Change Is Gonna Come
Lift Every Voice and Sing

Carson Landry, Prof. Jessi Grieser, and Meghan Wysocki perform. The bells can be heard throughout the North Campus Grove. Lurie Tower will be open via elevator throughout the concert (hearing protection encouraged), as well as for a demonstration and Q&A from 12:30 to 12:45.

Performers:
Carson Landry, Prof. Jessi Grieser, and Meghan Wysocki

More information: https://oami.umich.edu/mlk-symposium-event/mlk-day-carillon-recital/

01/12/2024

On Monday, Jan. 15 at noon, SMTD presents a special concert on the North Campus bell tower, highlighting the actions MLK invoked during his “I Have A Dream” speech.

I. “To Pray Together”

Precious Lord
He’s Got The Whole World In His Hands
There Is A Balm In Gilead

II. “To Struggle Together”

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round
We Shall Overcome

III. “To Stand Up For Freedom Together”

Woke Up This Morning With My Mind On Freedom
Change Is Gonna Come
Lift Every Voice and Sing

Carson Landry, Prof. Jessi Grieser, and Meghan Wysocki perform. The bells can be heard throughout the North Campus Grove. Lurie Tower will be open via elevator throughout the concert (hearing protection encouraged), as well as for a demonstration and Q&A from 12:30 to 12:45.

Performers:
Carson Landry, Prof. Jessi Grieser, and Meghan Wysocki

More information: https://oami.umich.edu/mlk-symposium-event/mlk-day-carillon-recital/

11/07/2023

Watch Carson Landry (MM '24, carillon) perform Isabella Leonarda's "Sonata for solo violin and basso continuo" on the Lurie Carillon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXMruTT2nfo

This video was premiered at the annual U-M SMTD Scholarship Showcase featuring the talents of scholarship recipients in music, theatre, musical theatre, and dance!

Sonata for solo violin and basso continuoIsabella Leonardaarr. Thomas LaueCarson Landry (MM ’24, carillon) performs Sonata for solo violin and basso continuo...

10/27/2023

Quite the 90s light show! 🎆🎆🎆

in 1996, the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Tower was officially dedicated on North Campus! 🔔 The ceremony included a glittering light show, bell ringing, a Symphony Band concert, and some fantastic fireworks. Fun fact: the Lurie Tower contains 60 bells, and the heaviest bell weighs 6 tons!

📸: Ann and Robert H. Lurie Tower, one of two grand Carillons at The University of Michigan, News & Information Photographs

10/09/2023

Listen today on Indigenous Peoples' Day at 1:20 pm for Prof. Ng's North American premiere of Dawn Avery's "Otsi’tsistó:sera" [Planting Songs], which honors the planting songs that Haudenosaunee women of the turtle clan sing to the seeds and plants as they grow in their gardens. 🌱🌱🌱 As Avery writes, "For this work, I have written three original planting songs, played one after the other with the insertion of a song of urgency to take care of the earth, waters, plants, and the elders. Traditional women’s seed songs are also sung consecutively, with pauses in between each. The third section is followed by the last planting song that ends with a traditional women’s song coda Kainawiyaheya, Yo Ho! I was privileged to work with Kaheh’tí:io (Jan Longboat) and Tawènte’se (Ray John) both of whom taught me how to plant and harvest Haudenosaunee gardens in the old way and to the Six Nations singers for teaching me planting songs."

Today's program also features works by Connor Chee, including carillon arrangements of his Navajo Vocables 5 and 6, only performed once before for De Vries-VanderKooy Memorial Lecturer Mark Charles's special appearance in 2022.

09/14/2023

This year's U-M Organ Conference features multiple carillon events on North Campus! 🔔🔔🔔 Student registration is free at https://smtd.umich.edu/performances-and-events/organ-conference/

- Monday, Oct. 2, 12 pm at Lurie Tower: "Women Composers in Performing Arts Technology" concert featuring carillon + electronics pieces by Dr. Julie Zhu, Dr. Zeynep Özcan (world premiere), and Australian film/videogame composer Jessica Wells. 🔔🔊🔊🔔 Followed by a world premiere performance of Julie Zhu's "Fulgura Frango" for harpsichord by Joseph Gascho at the E.V. Moore Building.

- Monday at 3:20 pm: Michael Gancz, “'Doing Diversity' through Repertoire: Local Imaginations of the Global in Three Songbooks for the Carillon” (presentation), Moore Building

- Monday at 3:50 pm: Grace Chan and Nicholas Vines, “Inventing Future Sounds for Ceremonies: Reimagining Ceremonial Music for the Organ and Carillon” (presentation), Moore Building

- Monday at 5:00 pm: Masterclass with U-M alumna Dr. Linda Dzuris at the Lurie Carillon

05/29/2023

Please join us in remembering Associate Professor Emerita and former University Carillonist Margo Armbruster Halsted, whose wonderful virtual lecture below summed up her extraordinary life in the carillon world. It was under Margo's tenure that the Lurie Carillon was built for North Campus. She was a global force and simultaneously a committed mentor, and her Armbruster Fund at SMTD has made our Central Campus carillon activities possible. In lieu of flowers, her obituary invites contributions to her fund. If other groups give at least $10,000 to this endowment, use of the endowment can be extended to programs for the Lurie Carillon as well.

Margo's carillon compositions include four titles published by ACME and one published by the GCNA.

Margo Halsted, Carillonneur/CarillonistMargo Halsted, a noted carillonist, has been an active recitalist, teacher, speaker, jurist, musicologist, and consult...

04/11/2023

Join us Aril 11–12 for the residency of Prof. Dawn Avery, a composer and ethnomusicologist of Mohawk descent, culminating in the world premiere of her piece "Sacred World: Onenh'sa," a set of 11 vignettes honoring indigenous and other global spiritual traditions, on the Lurie Carillon at 5:30 pm Tuesday! https://smtd.umich.edu/dawn-avery-residency/

01/26/2023

Our snowy towers! ☃️☃️☃️

12/16/2022

And that's a wrap! Thanks for listening. 🎶🎶🎶 We'll resume weekday lunchtime recitals on January 4, 2023, the first day of the winter semester. In the meantime, we're wondering who prevails, the Storm Trooper or the bell ringer?!

11/10/2022

Coverage of our Election Day song request concerts by The Michigan Daily! 🎶🎶🎶 MMus carillon student Carson Landry played music from Lil Nas X to Lady Gaga to encourage voter engagement: “We are connected to the community, & what we play on the is representative of [that]” 🗳️🗳️🗳️

"For Whom the Bells Poll" was a election-inspired performance at the University of Michigan Tuesday. Hit songs echoed from the bells Tuesday.

11/08/2022

Check the second set of recitals below for our Native American Heritage Month concerts at Lurie Tower!

"Navajo Prelude No. 3" (arranged for )Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! Originally written for piano, this arrangement for carillon was commissioned (...

11/01/2022

The University Record covered Carson Landry's "For Whom The Bell Polls" initiative! Remember to register to vote, and to request what you'd like to hear on the bell towers on Election Day!

In preparation for Election Day on Nov. 8, all U-M community members are invited to vote on the music that will be played that day from campus’ two carillon towers.

10/24/2022

Hey students! Register to vote at UMMA: University of Michigan Museum of Art and then put in your online vote for what you'd like to hear on Election Day in carillon grad student Carson Landry's special request set! 🗳🗳🗳 'For Whom the Bell Polls':

In preparation for Election Day on Nov. 8, all U-M community members are invited to vote on the music that will be played that day from campus’ two carillon towers.

10/24/2022

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10/12/2022

Did you hear the two subwoofers on Monday? Here's a look behind the scenes! 🔊🔊🔊

10/11/2022

In case you missed yesterday's noontime Indigenous Peoples' Day concert, here's a new release from brilliant composer Connor Chee's Navajo preludes series!

10/07/2022

We're giving a signal boost to this Kerrytown event for anyone wishing to ring tower bells in honor of National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend.

Bells will ring from coast to coast as a grateful nation pauses on Sunday, October 8, 2017 to honor those firefighters who died in the line of duty in 2016 and previous years.

09/29/2022

At noon on Indigenous Peoples' Day (Monday, Oct. 10), Professors Tiffany Ng and David Jackson will perform a special faculty recital at Lurie Tower featuring the Michigan premiere of Alison Yun-Fei Jiang's "Cloud Lullaby," a duet for trombone and carillon to honor the memory of children who died at Canadian residential schools. Visit the University of Michigan Organ Conference schedule for more carillon events: https://smtd.umich.edu/departments/organ/organ-conference/

09/10/2022

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Check out this Lurie event on Monday at 7:30 pm 🥮🥮🥮 🌕🌕🌕

Join us on Sept 9 (Friday)12:00-12:30 pm at Burton Memorial Tower (230 N Ingalls St) and Sept 12 (Monday) 7:30-8:00pm at Lurie Tower (1230 Murfin Ave) for our very first concert of the academic year to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival together--
中秋節快樂! (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!)🌝🐰There will be free MoonCakes and cookies!! 🥮🍪

04/24/2022

A performance by Mikayla Kurkjian, grad student in Michigan Engineering, for Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day:

04/22/2022

This Sunday, April 24 is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day. Here's Michigan Engineering graduate student Mikayla Kurkjian performing her arrangement of "Tamzara," a traditional Armenian tune, on the Lurie Carillon. Listen at Burton Tower on Sunday at noon for more Armenian music in remembrance of the victims of the

01/10/2022

Wolverine weather. ❄️

11/01/2021

Follow first-year carillon student Elizabeth Shriner's thoughts on learning to play the bell towers and lessons on accessibility, including for those with invisible disabilities

"You’ll hear about my experiences with the carillon throughout the semester, but I’d like to share about how the course has exposed me to not only new repertoire and performers, but also lessons on accessibility."

Read Art Biz with Liz's post on arts, ink http://artsatmichigan.umich.edu/ink/2021/10/22/art-biz-with-liz-learning-about-accessibility/

08/06/2021

The Bells Above Campus August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 marfin Uncategorized If you’ve spent time on campus, you’re probably familiar with the chiming of bells that mark the hour. What you may not be familiar with, however, is that the bells are more than merely a way to mark time, but also a hefty ...

08/02/2021

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.

07/12/2021

Our Lurie Tower midday recitalist Eva Albalghiti is playing her carillon concert right now 🎶

You can view her live-streaming here: https://www.facebook.com/UMCarillon/videos/956941318212081/

07/09/2021

Here is a video from Tom Gurin's live-streaming carillon concert at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Tower this past Monday!

Thank you for coming and enjoying our "7 at 7" Monday concert series! We look forward to seeing you coming Monday for Eva Albalghiti plays the Lurie Carillon!

Carillons at The University of Michigan University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance