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The final concert in Berea’s 2006 Summer Carillon Series will
be given on Monday, Sept. 4 (Labor Day) at 8 pm. Berea College Carillonneur
John Courter will be performing on the 56-bell carillon in Draper
Tower. Seating in the College Quadrangle will be provided, and a
video monitor will allow persons at ground level to view the player
in action. Admission is free and all are invited to attend.
Courter’s program will include original carillon pieces
by composers from Holland, Belgium, Australia and America, folksongs
from Japan and Scotland, and arrangements of a Mozart Minuet and
a Waltz from Shostakovich’s Suite for Jazz Orchestra. Also
on the program is Courter’s “In Memoriam-September
11, 2001.” The program will last about one hour.
In mid-July, Courter traveled to Gdansk, Poland to give a lecture
and a recital at the Fifteenth World Carillon Federation Congress.
During the Congress, the Executive Board and Committee of Delegates
voted to accept a new World-Standard Carillon Keyboard which is
based on Berea’s new keyboard installed in 2000. There are
already eleven examples of this keyboard installed in Europe and
America. Originally known as the “Berea Keyboard,” it
is now known as the “WCF Keyboard 2006.”
Courter began playing the carillon as a student at Michigan State
University, and later attended the Netherlands Carillon School,
attaining both the Practical and Performing Artist Diplomas. He
has performed at Carillon Festivals in Springfield, IL, Canberra,
Australia, and at Bok Tower in Florida, where he was Composer-in-Residence
in the Spring of 2004. His compositions are played in all countries
that have a carillon culture.
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