By arts editor Helen Musa

More than 100 bells will ring out over Lake Burley Griffin on Thursday when the ANU Community Music Centre, the National Capital Authority and the Embassy of Indonesia present an end-of-year concert at the National Carillon.

Bringing together around 45 handbells and the National Carillon’s 57 bells, the free concert will feature community musicians, including nine developing carillonists, performing alongside senior carillonist Thomas Laue.

The program will span musical eras and traditions, from Bach and Schumann to favourites from The Sound of Music, Scottish and Norwegian folk melodies and contemporary North American carillon repertoire.

A highlight will be a medley of seven lullabies and children’s songs from Australia and around the world, performed by the entire handbell ensemble alongside the Carillon bells.

That medley will include a Māori lullaby from Aotearoa New Zealand, a Japanese lullaby from Kyoto, a Teochew lullaby, a Gunggari song from south-west Queensland, a children’s song from Yorta Yorta Country, and lullabies from the Philippines and Indonesia.

Audiences will also be able to watch the 23 musicians performing inside the tower through a live, synchronised video stream using the free auXync smartphone app. Available within about 300 metres of the National Carillon, as the stream does not use mobile data.

Indonesian music will frame the concert, opening with the world premiere of a carillon arrangement of Angin Malam (Night Breeze) and concluding with Indonesia Pusaka and the lullaby Belaian Sayang (Tender Loving Caress).

CMC Canberra Bells, National Carillon, November 19. Free.

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