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Bell
tower the instrument
for summer concert
UM’s
bell tower will ring with hymns, show tunes, Beatles hits and patriotic
music during a summer carillon concert on the Oval Tuesday evening,
June 29.
Elizabeth Graves Vitu, a carillonneur from Canet, France, will be
the talent behind the Main Hall bells for the 7 p.m. concert. The
public is invited to bring a picnic supper, a blanket or lawn chair
and enjoy a free ice cream social on the Oval while listening to the
special performance.
Vitu will take time out from a visit with her sister Katherine of
Missoula to play UM’s carillon, which turned 50 years old last
year. As a special treat, Vitu will perform a duet with UM carillonneur
Nancy Cooper, who plays the bells at noon each weekday and during
Homecoming.
Vitu began her carillon studies in her native Virginia before continuing
in France at the Ecole Francaise de Carillon. She was appointed by
the bishop as assistant carillonneur of the St. Jean-Baptiste Cathedral
Carillon in Perpignan in 1999. She has played carillons all over the
world, most recently representing France and the United States in
a series of concerts for a French festival titled “Women Carillonneurs
of the World.”
The hour-long concert will feature favorites such as “Stardust,”
“When I’m Sixty-Four,” “Oh, Shenandoah,”
“Dream a Little Dream of Me,” “Parade of the Tin
Soldiers,” “Sunrise, Sunset” and “The Stars
and Stripes Forever.”
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