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)

1160 Observatory Dr, Madison, WI 53706

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

Fanfare and Variations on “Amazing Grace,”
from Pages in American History (Leen ’t Hart, 1976)

Prayer for Peace (Jean Miller, 1962)

II.  Simple gifts (Joseph Brackett, 1848; arranged for carillon by Milford Myhre, 1976)

More love (Shaker hymn, 1870s; arr. Ronald Barnes, 1976)

“Adagio in d-minor” (Prelude no. 22, Well-Tempered Clavier I, BWV 867a;
Johann Sebastian Bach, 1722; arr. Leen ’t Hart)

III. Preludium no. IX (Matthias Vanden Gheyn, c. 1755; edition of Leen ’t Hart, 1965)

Sarabande (Francis Poulenc, 1960; arr. Jonathan Bell Arterton, 1970)

Allegro, first of 12 Duos for two wind instruments, K.487
(Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1786; arr. Chris Bos, 1971)

IV. Sarabande (Ronald Barnes, 1952)
dedicated to UW Carillonneur Edward O. Hugdahl

Fugue for Bells (James B. Angell, 1965)

Varsity