[Carillon-info] REMINDER: Summer Carillon Series FINALE TOMORROW, Aug 8, *6:40pm*-8pm - and donations for local nonprofit Music Haven!

[Yale Summer Carillonneurs]

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*This is an important one—please read to help us out, if you can!*

Dear friends,

*Can you believe how time has flown?* After Andrea McCrady's stunning
performance last week (recording here <https://youtu.be/7X6xFE1UT2w?t=158>),*
this week's concert will sadly be the last time we will all be gathering
for the season... We—Reshard and Ian, your honored Summer Carillonneurs for
2025—along our wonderful team of student carillonneur assistants, have been
so delighted to welcome you all each week since June*, both in person and
remotely via YouTube <https://www.youtube.com/@yaleguild/streams>. It's
made us *so *deeply proud to see our community grow in leaps and bounds,
with young listeners and old, and old listeners and new, and friends and
family and strangers all joining our throng along the way—all of us
discovering or rediscovering the unique joy that the carillon can bring,
and feeling for ourselves how the bells have brought us all together.
Across the past couple of months we've ushered in many hundreds of guests
into Branford Courtyard's warm, green, sunny embrace, and brought eight
professional carillonneurs to our beloved Harkness Tower from all over the
United States and beyond.

*Together, we've made this Summer Series one for the books. From the bottom
of our hearts—thank you.*

We *cannot *wait to finally perform for you ourselves tomorrow. (We may
only be student performers in our very earliest years of carillon study,
but we still plan to knock your socks off!) We ask that, if possible, you
arrive tomorrow a bit earlier than usual, at 6:40pm—we plan to say our
announcements and season's thank-yous then, so we performers can climb the
tower to start the music at 7pm. As always, when we are done performing, we
will come downstairs just after, where we'll say our final goodbyes to each
other for the season.

And, as announced last week, *our final concert will happily feature
something very special*, to keep our spirit resonating long after our
picnics have been packed up for the last time. *Please read on!*

Many of our audience have thanked us for the joy the carillon has brought
them over the past months, and asked us if there's something they can do in
turn to support the carillon, financially or otherwise. We have always said
that we only ask that our community spreads the word and brings new
listeners along whenever they can, so the joy of the carillon can be shared
with more and more people and our community can continue to grow in leaps
and bounds.

Now, we're delighted to announce another way of giving back and supporting
the carillon: *At our own concert tomorrow, we as the Summer Carillonneurs
will also be boosting calls for donations for a phenomenal local registered
nonprofit, Music Haven <https://www.musichavenct.org/>.* Music Haven
provides tuition-free music lessons to 100 children in the New Haven school
system, along with one-on-one mentorship, instruments, music books,
academic tutoring, field trips, healthy snacks and more for a holistic
experience of support—and thus *"giving all kids a chance to play"*. *89%
of Music Haven students are from low-income families, and Music Haven
provides their students with access to the world of music that otherwise
would be much more difficult to attain.*

And so, *in celebration of the close of the season tomorrow—but ONLY IF and
ONLY to the extent that you are willing and able to do so!—**we will be
asking members of the audience and our wider Summer Carillon community: **if
the series has brought some small joy to your summer, please consider
making a voluntary donation of any size to Music Haven, to keep spreading
the joy of music to others. *We ask that you *please specifically identify
this donation as arising from your Summer Carillon Series experience—just
add a note/comment saying "Carillon", so we can keep track of how much we
have raised.* *EVERY little bit counts, no matter how big or small! *If we
all do what we can, it will add up in a big way, and as a community we will
really make a whole world of difference for the kids.

*We intend to work together with Music Haven where possible to use these
funds to support the brand-new introduction of some carillon-related
projects and programs within their organization, guided by how much we are
able to raise through this effort. *We hope that, together, our Summer
Series community's support will lead to the building of something wonderful
and new that will carry our shared spirit through the rest of the year, and
keep moving New Haven's love of the carillon to ever greater heights.

*Our wonderful friends at Music Haven will be present in the courtyard
tomorrow to help collect cash, change and checks (we will have donation
envelopes available), and to answer any questions you may have. We will
also have guides to Music Haven's site to make credit card donations—if
you'd like to make a credit card donation already, or to mail a check, you
can do so here
<https://musichavenct.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/musichavenct/donation.jsp>
(again,
please just add a "Comment" that it is related to the Summer Series).*
In-kind donations (such as of second-hand instruments) are also able to be
discussed with Music Haven directly. *Applicable donations would be
tax-deductible on the basis of going to a registered 501(3)(c)
organization, although it would be for the donor to ensure that the
donation meets any applicable legal requirements.* Again, we know that
everyone knows their own unique circumstances best, and so any such
donations would be FULLY voluntary—the concert series remains free and open
to all, and you do NOT have to pay to continue enjoying our concerts. (You
can see why our spirit resonates so strongly with Music Haven's!)

More information, from Music Haven's "About" page
<https://www.musichavenct.org/about-music-haven>:

"At the heart of our model is the relationship between teacher and student,
> and the relationships between the young musicians themselves. Our students
> develop resilience and self-confidence, and gain a collective set of
> invaluable life experiences — all in the service of learning to create
> something beautiful together. Students come by school bus each afternoon
> from more than 25 different schools throughout the city to our 7000 sf
> programming space. They have access to practice rooms, rehearsal studios,
> and performance space, as well as classrooms for music theory,
> improvisation, and homework help. They are each taught one-on-one by a
> member of our resident professional string quartet and are mentored by the
> same teacher over many years. The deep, long-term relationships we develop
> with our students and their families make it possible for us to make a lot
> more than music."


And here's a wonderful pic of the students from their page!

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And that's it! *So, for the last time this year: See you all soon!*

Warmest regards,

*Reshard L. Kolabhai & **Ian Haile*
Summer Carillonneurs, 2025 | Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs
New Haven, Connecticut
yalesummercarillon at gmail.com | http://yalecarillon.org/
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