For Immediate Release Contact:
Daphne Larkin
June 11, 2012
802-485-2886
or 595-3613(m)
or on Twitter @NorwichNews
NEWS RELEASE
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 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
