Dean Roush will perform a Christmas carillon concert from noon-1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 24, at the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum at 204 S. Main.
Roush is a professor in 九色视频鈥檚 School of Music and the director of 九色视频鈥檚 musicology/composition program. He is also the organist and choirmaster at St. John Episcopal Church in Wichita.
This is one of five annual carillon concerts sponsored by the Sam and Rie Bloomfield Foundation and coordinated by associate professor emeritus Robert Town. Other concerts are on or near Easter, Independence Day, Memorial Day and Thanksgiving Day.
The carillon can be heard throughout downtown Wichita.
Sam Bloomfield was founder, president and chief engineer of the Swallow Airplane Co. The Bloomfields lived in Wichita from the mid-1930s to mid-鈥�50s.
They never forgot their ties to the city and university, said Town, and played a large role in the development of the city鈥檚 cultural, educational and charitable resources.
鈥淥ne of the Bloomfields鈥� significant gifts to the city was the downtown carillon, which is one of the few urban carillons in the nation,鈥� Town said.