University of Wisconsin Memorial Carillon

The northern lights (Aurora borealis) glows behind the Carillon Tower at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Nov. 11, 2025. (Photo by Xiaomeng Shen / UW–Madison)

University of Wisconsin Memorial Carillon

The northern lights (Aurora borealis) glows behind the Carillon Tower at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Nov. 11, 2025. (Photo by Xiaomeng Shen / UW–Madison)

Lyle Anderson, University Carillonneur Emeritus

I.   UW school songs

The University Hymn
On, Wisconsin!
Songs to Thee, Wisconsin

Preludio I –Homage to M.v.d.G. (Neil Thornock, 2018)

Requiem for the Refugees (Dick Le Mair, 2001)

II. “Hear the tolling of the bells–iron bells,”
from Second Suite, the Bells, after Poe (Robert B. Kleinschmidt, 1934)

The Blue Ridge Nocturne (Johan Franco, 1958)

Passing Thought No. 6 (Anthony Skilbeck, April 2007)

III. Elegy (Johan Franco, 1965)

Cranbrook Nocturne no. 1 (Johan Franco, 1959)

Passing Thought No. 7 (Anthony Skilbeck, May 2007)

IV. The Bells of Hell (American Salvationist hymn; arranged for carillon by Theophil Rusterholz, 1956)

  “The bells of Hell go ting-a-ling-a-ling for you and not for me.”

Dead March, from the opera Saul, HWV 53
(George Frideric Handel, 1738; arr. Leen ’t Hart, c. 1960)

Varsity