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Upcoming Events at the Brooks Center

Gleb Ivanov, pianist

September 11th, 2008 at 8:00 pm - Twenty-five year old Russian pianist Gleb Ivanov is “eerily like the ghost of Horowitz…His talent is Learn More...

Music in the Air VI

September 14th, 2008 at 5:00 pm - Bells and more will ring from the tower of Tillman Hall as university carillonneur Linda Dzuris pres Learn More...

Neil Berg's 100 Years of Broadway

September 16th, 2008 at 8:00 pm - 100 Years of Broadway is a revue featuring five of Broadway’s finest singers accompanied by an all-s Learn More...

The Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley

September 26th, 2008 at 7:00 pm - Ten year old Stanley Lambchop makes it cool to be flat! Although an unfortunate encounter with a bu Learn More...

The Lovell Sisters Band

September 29th, 2008 at 8:00 pm - Hailing from Calhoun, Georgia, teenage sisters Jessica, Megan, and Rebecca Lovell blend in heavenly Learn More...

Clemson Carillonneurs

clemson carillon student lesson

Clemson University is the only university or college in South Carolina where students can learn to play the carillon. Private and group lessons are given through the Department of Performing Arts. The lessons are open to all students, no matter their course of study. Since classes were started in 1999, more than 100 Clemson students from more than 40carillon hands different majors have taken carillon lessons and classes.

It's a common myth that the carillon is played by pulling ropes connected to each bell. In fact, the bells are struck by clappers that are linked mechanically to a keyboard. Arranged much like other keyboards, a carillon keyboard consists of wooden baton about two feet in length which are struck using closed fists and feet.