Tucked past three flights of steep staircases, the chimes room in Altgeld Hall is home to shelves of handwritten music, wooden pedals connected to wire cables and the Altgeld Ringers, a group of ...

The “Cherry Tree Massacre,” is not, surprisingly, a gruesome battle in history that happened to take place in a cherry grove. It is actually one of the largest and longest-running a cappella shows on ...

TROY, N.Y.- The Empire State Youth Orchestra’s CHIME (Creating Harmony, Inspiring Musical Excellence) program, which currently provides young musicians in the Schenectady City School District an equal ...

For the first time in the instrument’s 150-year history, a group of 13 undergraduates composed a piece to be performed by the Cornell Chimes, a set of 21 bells housed in McGraw Tower. The feat was ...

FROM SONGS can come love, strength, friendship and hope. From certain songs, like “One Little Candle,” comes hope. There was a lot of hope the other day at Chizuk Amuno Congregation. Two choruses of ...

No musical instruments have been more intimately connected with the daily life of the great mass of men than hells. Our factories, schools, ships, houses, churches, all require them. Indeed, they have ...