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Charles W. L. Foreman and Margaret Foreman donated a 55-bell Petit and Fritsen carillon on which the first official concert on the Foreman Carillon was played by George Matthew, Jr. on Memorial Day 1987.
References
1986 "55
Bells To Fill Simsbury's Air with Music," Hartford Courant,
November 21, 1986, Page C3.
1987 Hartford
Courant, May 21, 1987, Page 413
An outdoor Memorial Day carillon concert will be sponsored by the
Farmington Valley Music Foundation Monday at 12:30 p.m. at Simsbury United
Methodist Church. George Matthew Jr., a carillonneur, will play
traditional folk songs and inspirational and patriotic selections.
Admission is free.
1996 "Charles W. L. Foreman," Hartford Courant, May 12, 1996, Page 33.
2006 "The Foreman Carillon at Simsbury United Methodist Church, Simsbury, Connecticut," by Ellen Dickinson, Bulletin of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America 55:16-20 (2006)
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