Carillon Dedication Concert | St. Paul's Cleveland Heights

Thursday, September 7, 2023, 8:17 PM

Family and friends are invited to attend a carillon concert to dedicate our recently enlarged carillon on Sunday, September 24, at 6 p.m. Bring a picnic and enjoy the music on the lawn, or just come and enjoy the beautiful sonorities as they spread over the Heights. Our guest performer that evening will be Tiffany Ng, Associate Professor of Carillon and University Organist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Dr. Ng is a star in her field. She has played at festivals around the globe including the 2018 University of Chicago Rockefeller Carillon New Music Festival, 2018 Canberra Carillon Festival, 2017 University of Michigan Bicentennial, 2015 UC Berkeley Campanile Centennial, 2014 Stanford CCRMA anniversary festival, the 23rd International Carillon Festival at Bok Tower Gardens, Florida, and the 2014 International Carillon Festival Barcelona.

The carillon at St. Paul’s was installed in 1929 in the 165-foot tower that was donated by Laura Price Briggs. It had originally been planned as a carillon with 25 bells, but the Great Depression interrupted its completion. It wasn’t until 1953 that the instrument was completed to its original design. It remained that way until late this spring when it was enlarged to standard concert carillon size of 47 bells. A single financial gift facilitated this expansion. St. Paul’s is very grateful for this gift from William and Laurie Buss that allows our carillon to sing along with only five other concert carillons in the state of Ohio. We are also fortunate and grateful to our own carillonneur since 1990, David Osburn, Jr., for so faithfully climbing the long wooden stairs to the playing chamber each and every Sunday morning regardless of weather or conditions to bring the joyful music of our bells to life.

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