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When I think of Rockefeller Chapel, I think Gothic. I think stone, gargoyles, arches, vaulting, wooden pews, red velvet seats, metal lanterns, and stained glass. I think strength, structure, and ...
This weekend you can hear adventurous new compositions played on 100 tons of bronze bells hanging in a church tower.
Two of the most historic and storied instruments in North America are, at last, back and better than ever. It was an odyssey, taking three years, more than $3 million and the combined efforts of ...
Ten minutes into its set Friday at a sold-out Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, the multi-layered composition Sunn O))) had been building with painstaking focus collapsed on itself. After a sharp pop ...
Raised in North Dakota, Brown first encountered Rockefeller Chapel while hitchhiking across the country to a summer job at a music camp. The chapel left "an indelible mark” on Brown, who returned to ...
As part of the University’s renovation of Rockefeller Chapel, the chapel’s carillon—the second largest in the world—is being dismantled and shipped to Holland where it will undergo a complete ...
CHICAGO -- The second largest carillon in the world resides on the South Side of Chicago, in the University of Chicago's Rockefeller Chapel. It weighs 100 tons, and is made of 72 bronze bells. The ...
Built with the Chapel itself in 1928, Rockefeller Chapel’s regal organ is one of four University organs of the American organ-builder E.M. Skinner (the others being at Yale, Princeton, and ...
In the dank basement of the Rockefeller Memorial Chapel at the University of Chicago, a plaster model of Moses stands shoulder-to-shoulder with John the Baptist, Plato and Calvin, all gradually tur… ...