The Bells of Summer
Summer Sundays, 5 pm
June 23 to August 25, 2019
A delightful summer evening tradition! Bring your picnic, your blanket, your children, your well-behaved dog, and listen to the magical bells serenading you. A tower tour is offered after each performance.
2019 Bells of Summer program booklet
The Bells of Summer (for Wylie Crawford, University Carillonneur 1984–2015)
The Bells of Summer are summer itself:
all urgent tasks aside;
moments stayed by sounds sustained
and sent back;
air cleansed of noise by gentle motions
in cups of bronze,
the lightness of being conveyed
in rhythms of measured stress, without strain;
the wily musician of struck bells,
master and foreman of their perfection,
modestly out of sight through forty-one summers,
comes into sight, and to our right praise.
—Bernard O. Brown, fourth Dean of Rockefeller Chapel
The Bells of Summer 2019
| June 23 | Amy Johansen | University of Sydney, Australia |
| June 30 | Bernard Winsemius | The Netherlands |
| July 7 | Kimberly Schafer | St. Chrysostom’s Episcopal Church, Chicago |
| July 14 | Carlo van Ulft | Springfield, IL |
| July 21 | Tiffany Lin and Michael Solotke | Philadelphia, PA and Yale University |
| July 28 | Leslie Chan | University of California, Berkeley |
| August 4 | Alex Johnson | University of Rochester, NY |
| August 11 | Jan Verheyen w/Cedric Honings (guitar) | Belgium |
| August 18 | Jeremy Chesman | Missouri State University |
| August 25 | Joey Brink | University of Chicago |
Past programs
2018 Bells of Summer program booklet
2017 Bells of Summer program booklet
2015 Bells of Summer program booklet