and her efforts to provide educational opportunity and training to newly emancipated African Americans were reflected in the strong support the Rockefellers gave to Spelman College, a historically ...

I’d been hearing them for years before I learned how impressive the instrument actually is—the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon, installed in 1932 following a two-year casting ...

To accommodate the weight and dimensions of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon, it is housed inside of a steeple. It takes 235 steps to climb to the keyboard, and a few dozen more to ...

The event, led by then University Carillonneur Joey Brink, also celebrated the 90th anniversary of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Carillon, affectionately known as “Big Laura.” The instrument, ...

three-year project that included the restoration of the chapel’s Laura Spelman Rockefeller carillon. University organist Thomas Weisflog was joined by four university choruses under James ...

honors teacher and philanthropist Laura Spelman Rockefeller and her parents, who were abolitionists, according to the school’s website. The institution began as Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary ...

If you’ve ever visited the University of Chicago campus, chances are you’ve heard the sounds of bells ringing from Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Dating to the 1930s, the Laura Spelman Rockefeller ...

[view:story=block_1] Since 1965, visitors have come to Rockefeller Chapel with blankets and picnic baskets in hand to spend a summer afternoon listening to the music of the Laura Spelman Rockefeller ...