Join us in the Margaret and Angus Wurtele Sculpture Garden for a 45-minute performance on Harkness Tower’s Yale Memorial Carillon. The carillon, an instrument consisting of bells in a tower, was perfected and popularized in the 17th-century Netherlands. In this concert, undergraduate members of the Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs perform period music from the Netherlands and Flanders, including works by the composers Jacob van Eyck, Sybrandus van Noordt, and Matthias van den Gheyn. As an instrument, the carillon is played in the confines of a small belfry chamber, yet the music produced can be heard throughout the surrounding area, in spaces both public and private. Such extremes of scale in the historical performance and reception of music relate to those explored for the visual arts in the Gallery’s current exhibition Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale. The program opens with an introduction by Adam Chen, TD ’23, B.A./M.A. candidate in History of Art and a cocurator of Thinking Small.

In the event of inclement weather, visitors are encouraged to listen to the performance on their own, either in the Sculpture Garden or elsewhere in the vicinity of Harkness Tower (74 High Street). Concert programs will be available in the Gallery lobby.