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June 11, 2012

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Norwich University 2012 Summer Carillon Concert Series

NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Bring a picnic and a lawn chair to the Upper Parade Ground on the beautiful campus of Norwich University, and enjoy free outdoor concerts performed on the Charlotte Nichols Greene Memorial Carillon.

Concerts take place rain or shine on the Upper Parade Ground, and are scheduled for five consecutive Saturdays beginning on July 7 and ending August 4. Each original hour-long program begins at 1 p.m. and is followed by a demonstration and an opportunity to tour the bell tower.

The largest musical instrument in the world, the carillon is played with both hands and feet, which strike levers attached by thick wires to the bells’ clappers. Norwich’s carillon, one of only two such instruments in the state of Vermont, comprises 47 bells, the largest of which weighs more than three tons. Please contact Diana Weggler at 802-485-2318 or dweggler@norwich.edu for more information.

Saturday, July 7

Charles Semowich

City Carillonneur

Albany, N.Y.

Saturday, July 14

Gerald Martindale

Carillonneur

Metropolitan Church

Toronto, Ontario

Saturday, July 21

Gordon Slater

Dominion Carillonneur

Emeritus

Ottawa, Ontario

Saturday, July 28

Anna Kasprzycka

City Carillonneur

Gdansk, Poland

Saturday, August 4

Elena Sadina and Sergei

Gratchev,

Instructors

Royal Carillon School

Mechelen, Belgium,

and Russian School

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Norwich University’s Sullivan Museum opens exhibit on sound

For Immediate Release
April 4, 2011

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NORTHFIELD, Vt. – Norwich University’s Sullivan Museum and History Center (SMHC) will celebrate the opening of the special exhibit, “Touch the Sound,” on Wednesday, April 6 at 12 p.m. with bagpipers for entertainment and a light lunch snack.

This event is free and open to the public.

The exhibit includes such explorations of sound as an ear model from the Department of Biology to three paintings from the art department demonstrating visual rhythm.

The Engineering Department shares three displays including how they use music as the motivating backdrop for teaching students the proper use of machine shop tools and computer programming skills.

Visitors are invited to play a “student flute,” strum a violin or a mandolin, and hear guitar compositions. WNUB, the NU radio station 88.3, shares clips and promos and sweepers from over the decades while the History Department presents music of the Civil Rights and how it impacted mass meetings.

The SMHC shares some of its special “sound” objects including the Estey Organ, the World War Field Phonograph, and the original carillon (c. 1934) without the bells which now resides in the Museum. Hands-on fun is also included in a “horrific sound” activity that is not to be missed—explore what horrible sounds—like fingernails on the chalkboard—concern most Americans!
For more information please call the Sullivan Museum at 802-485-2183, 2379 or 2448. The Museum is free and open to the public from 9-4 pm Monday through Saturday.

This special exhibit is on display April 6 through August 30, 2011.

Two Lunch and Learn programs are associated with the exhibit:

Thursday, April 14: Amp it Up: Getting Musical Vibration Into the Sound System with NU Engineering Professor Michael Prairie presenting how vibrations are turned into electrical signals.

Tuesday, April 19: Sing and Be Free: Using Song to Invoke God, Forge Unity, and Change History during the Civil Rights Movement, 1960-65: presented by NU History Professor Rowland Brucken.


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Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in Baccalaureate and Graduate Degrees. Norwich University was founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army. Norwich University is the oldest private military college in the United States of America and the birthplace of our nation's Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). www.norwich.edu

Norwich University Annual Summer Carillon Concert Series

For Immediate Release
June 16, 2010
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802-485-2886
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NEWS ADVISORY

Norwich University Annual Summer Carillon Concert Series

NORTHFIELD – Bring a picnic to Norwich University’s Upper Parade green and enjoy a free, hour-long carillon concert given by guest carillonneurs every Saturday in July at 1 p.m.

Here is the schedule:
July 3
George Matthew Jr.
Norwich and Middlebury

July 10
Hans Hielscher
Wiesbaden, Germany

July 17
Geraard & Richard de Waardt
Rotterdam, Netherlands

July 24
Marcel Siebers
Venlo and Cuijk, Netherlands

July 31
David Maker
University of Conn.

Norwich’s carillon, housed in the Adams Bell Tower, is one of only two such instruments in the state of Vermont. The carillon is the largest musical instrument in the world, and its history dates 500 years back to the Low Countries of Europe. The instrument consists of at least two octaves of carillon bells arranged in chromatic series and played from a keyboard. The instrument is sometimes known as "the singing tower."

For more information the public can contact 802-485-2318 or email nucarillon@norwich.edu.

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Norwich University is a diversified academic institution that educates traditional-age students and adults in a Corps of Cadets and as civilians. Norwich offers a broad selection of traditional and distance-learning programs culminating in Baccalaureate and Graduate Degrees. Founded in 1819 by Captain Alden Partridge of the U.S. Army, Norwich University is the oldest private military college in the United States of America and the birthplace of our nation's Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC). www.norwich.edu