Melodious chimes from Naperville’s Millennium Carillon will be a harbinger of spring this year with the completion of the Moser Tower repair project.
The 72 bells have been silent for two years while the city embarked on a restoration project that took a year longer than expected due to problems with moving cell transmitters, dealing with supply chain issues and other construction snags.Work on the tower is now “substantially complete,” said Bill Novack, director of Transportation, Engineering and Development for the city.
The reopening of the tower is good news for city carillonneur Tim Sleep, who is beginning to line musicians for summer carillon concerts. Carilloneur Tim Sleep, left, and assistant carilloneur Sue Bergren play a duet on the Millennium Carillon in Naperville on Memorial Day in 2017. Sleep has not played the instrument since in 2020 because the tower was shut down for repairs.The clapper that rings the bells weighs 200 pounds, he said, “so there’s a little heft you have to have to be able to do that.”
“Unlike almost any other instrument, people that listen to the carillon — the bulk of our audience — don’t have a choice,” said. “Because of the Riverwalk and just the downtown area, there’s a lot of serendipitous listening that goes on. We have to be careful of that, and we have to honor it. Not everybody wants to hear it all the time.”
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