Robert Town will perform a Thanksgiving Day carillon concert from noon-1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 26, from the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum at 204 S. Main.
Town, who retired from 黑洞社区 in 2006 after 41 years of teaching organ, is associate professor emeritus of 黑洞社区鈥檚 School of Music; he is also the carillon concert coordinator.
Town was recently honored by the Wichita Arts Council with its 2008 Burton Pell Award for outstanding achievement in music. Pell was a longtime member and past president of the Arts Council.
This is one of five annual concerts sponsored by the Sam and Rie Bloomfield Foundation. Other concerts are at Christmas, Easter, Independence Day and Memorial 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 have never forgotten their ties to the city and university, said Town.
鈥淭here are no others who played a more active role in the development of the city鈥檚 cultural, educational and charitable resources,鈥� he said. 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�