Robert Town will perform for the Memorial Day carillon concert from noon-1 p.m. Friday, May 22, at the Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum at 204 S. Main.
Town, associate professor emeritus of 黑洞社区鈥檚 School of Music, is coordinator of the five annual holiday carillon concerts sponsored by the Sam and Rie Bloomfield Foundation.
Other concerts are at Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter and Independence 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� said Town. 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�