Is the Tower ever open to the Public?Members at the Donor level and above can view the Founder's Room on one of four

tours conducted each year.

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1. Founder’s Room2. Chao Research Center

(Archives)3. Maintenance Workshop

4. Anton Brees Carillon Library

5. Carillonneur’s Studio6. Keyboard Room7. Carillon (60 bells)

Architect: Milton B. Medary (Philadelphia)

Purpose: To house the carillon; serve as a centerpiece for the Gardens; the private use of the Bok family

Built: 1927-1929

Height: 205 feet (62.5 meters)

Weight: 5,500 tons (5,000 metric tons)

Structure: Steel frame with brick walls; outer facing of pink and gray Georgia marble and Florida coquina, a limestone of shell and coral fragments

Foundation: 118 reinforced concrete piles, 13-24 feet (4-7 meters) underground with a concrete cap of 2.5 feet (0.8 meter)

Sculpture: Lee Lawrie (New York City); herons at the top, eagles at the base of the bellchamber; all sculptures were carved on-site

Colorful Grilles near the top: Ceramic tiles designed by J.H. Dulles Allen (Philadelphia)

Brass Door and Wrought-iron Gates with Birds: Samuel Yellin (Philadelphia); depicts the Biblical story of Creation

Inscription under the Sundial: This Singing Tower with its adjacent Sanctuary was dedicated and presented to the American people by Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, February 1, 1929.

Bellfounder: John Taylor Bellfounders, Ltd. (Loughborough, England)

Size: 60 bronze bells

Bell weight: Smallest bell at 16 lbs. Largest bell at 11+ tons (10+ metric tons) Total of 63+ tons (57+ metric tons)

Inside the Singing TowerTower

Carillon

863-676-1408 - Lake Wales, FL

www.boktowergardens.org

DAILY CARILLON MUSICMarch 25-27, 2019

Carillon Concerts at 1:00 and 3:00 p.m.

Clock MusicAnnouncing the hour strike: Lake Wales Nocturne (excerpt) Johan Franco

9:00 Prelude Johann Sebastian Bach

9:30 Sarabande (for carillon) Benoit Franssen

10:00 Somber Pavane (for carillon) Ronald Barnes

10:30 Andante Joseph H. Fiocco

11:00 Spring Morning (for carillon) Geert D’hollander Sorrowing

11:30 Andante (for carillon) Ronald Barnes

12:00 Prelude VI (for carillon) Matthias vanden Gheyn

12:30 Chaconne * Auguste Durant

1:00 CONCERT

2:00 Dreaming (for carillon) Geert D’hollander

2:30 Andante (for carillon) Ioannes de Gruijtters

3:00 CONCERT

4:00 Waltz Edvard Grieg

4:30 Cortege (for carillon) John Courter

5:00 La Volta William Byrd

5:30 Solveig’s Song * Edvard Grieg

Adaptations for carillon of melodies or of music written for other instruments have been made by the recitalist, except for those arrangers identified by the following:

* Anton Brees

Monday at 1:00 p.m.Live performance by Alex Johnson

Music from Across EuropeJe Te Veux – Gnossienne No. 1 – Gnossienne No. 5

Entry of the Gladiators Julius Fučík (1872-1916)Ständchen, D 889 (Serenade) F. Schubert (1797-1828)“O mio babbino caro” Giac. Puccini (1858-1924)

Music of Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849) Mazurka, Op. 68, No. 3 Nocturne, Op. 9, No. 2

Monday at 3:00 p.m.Live performance by Alex Johnson

Baroque SelectionPreludio No. 3 Matthias vanden Gheyn (1721-1785)

Romantic SelectionNotule No. 1 & Image No. 2 E. Allard (1915-1976)

Contemporary SelectionElegy Roy Hamlin Johnson (b. 1929)

Romantic Mazurka, op. 68, no. 3 Frédéric Chopin (1810-1849)Nocturne, op. 9, no. 2

Baroque Preludio No. 5 Matthias vanden Gheyn (1721-1785)

Tuesday at 1:00 p.m. Live performance by Alex Johnson

Greetings from the Carillon RepertoireMotorhythmia Neil Thornock (b. 1977)Music For An Early Spring Morning

K. Cosaert (b. 1963)Elégie Vasily Kalinnikov (1866-1901)

Farewell from the Carillon RepertoireSuite No. 1 for Carillon John Courter (1942-2010) 1. Fantasia Octatonica 2. Sonorities 3. Toccata Festevole

Tuesday at 3:00 p.m. Live performance by Alex Johnson

Contemporary Carillon Repertoire and Spanish MusicChartres (for carillon) Roy Hamlin Johnson (b. 1929)Habenera (from Carmen) Georges Bizet (1838-1875)Maanacht (from The Cathedral, for carillon)

A. Meulemans (1884-1966)Verano Porteño (for instrumental ensemble)

Astor Piazzola(1921-1992)Reflexies (for carillon) Jacques Maassen(1947-2013)Leyenda (for piano) Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)

Wednesday at 1:00 p.m.Live performance by Alex Johnson

Baroque SelectionPreludio No. 3 Matthias vanden Gheyn (1721-1785)

Romantic SelectionNotule No. 1 & Image No. 2 E. Allard (1915-1976)

Contemporary SelectionMotorhythmia Niel Thornock (b. 1977)Elegy Roy Hamlin Johnson (b. 1929)

Music for an Early Spring Morning K. Cosaert (b. 1963))

Wednesday at 3:00 p.m.Live performance by Alex Johnson

Three HymnsPrelude on: Joyful, Joyful L. H. Whipple (1920-2005)Slane Traditional Irish

arr. L. H. WhippleSimple Gifts Joseph Brackett (1797-1882)

arr. M. Myhre

A Waltz and a PreludeOn the San Antonio River Robert Byrnes (b. 1949)Preludio No. 5 Matthias van den Gheyn (1721-1785)

Three Folk SongsShenandoah Traditional AmericanScarborough Fair Traditional English

arr. W. Westcott Low Bridge, Everybody Down Th. S. Allen (1876-1919)

To Conclude The Second Waltz Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)Praeludium (Suite for Lute No. 2) J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

Alex Johnson grew up in a suburb

of Dallas, Texas where he began his musical training with piano at the age

of eight. Orchestral and marching percussion became his interest by age 10 and he flourished in his high school band and percussion program. He describes his percussion training– the kinesthetic awareness of how changes in muscle tension affect the sound produced – as important when he began to study the carillon as an undergraduate.

“I didn’t know what the word carillon was before beginning school at the University of Rochester, but I almost instantly became attached to the instrument,” he shared.

Geert D’hollander was named Bok Tower Gardens’ fourth fulltime carillonneur in October 2012 and is one of the finest in the world. He has studied piano, chamber music, choral and orchestral direction, fugue, and composition at the Royal Conservatory in Antwerp, Belgium, and carillon at the Royal Carillon School in Mechelen, Belgium.

He has taken first prize in more than 30 international competitions for carillon or composition. In 1997, Geert succeeded Ronald Barnes as University Carillonist and Professor of Carillon at the Department of Music at UC Berkeley. In 2008, he was awarded the “Berkeley Medal” for “Distinguished Service to the Carillon.”

Alex JohnsonSinging Tower Carillon Fellow

Geert D’hollanderResident Carillonneur