Latest posts tagged with #Handbells on Bluesky
My latest weekly miscellany post on Substack is now available!
This week's topics include StarTalk, hot sauce, handbells, scenic train trips, a recipe for Tortilla Wraps and the fish doorbell. The composer of the week is Max Richter.
#StarTalk #astronomy #handbells #music #trivia #recipe #substack
#OnThisDay 1921 Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla was born. Here's his Libertango performed by Estonia's Campanelli Handbell Ensemble with Aivar Oroper (Accordion) & Toomas Söelsepp (Cymbells & Maracas)
youtu.be/p-1JPoGw2B4
#Handbells #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
It's #InternationalBagpipeDay. World's first published music for bagpipes & handbells was arrangement by Dunblane's Malcolm Wilson of "Amazing Grace" - now been performed by many groups around world
youtu.be/BTGqcP1MM7w
#BagpipeDay
#Handbells #Handbells4All #HandbellsRFun
🗓️🇺🇸✍️🎶 #OnThisDay 1910 US composer Samuel Barber was born. Here’s his Adagio performed on handbells
▶️ youtu.be/53u0BDdO200
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #Handbells4All
🗓️🇫🇷✍️🎶 #OnThisDay 1875 French composer Maurice Ravel was born so here’s his Boléro performed by the outstanding Hong Kong Youth Handbell Ensemble and The Clappers Handbell Emsemble
▶️ youtu.be/kzw8Q-TXwfY
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
🗓️🏴✍️🎶 #OnThisDay 1951 Welsh singer/songwriter Ivor Novello died - here’s his “Keep the home fires burning” performed by Dunblane Cathedral Youth & Children’s Handbell Ensemble
▶️ youtu.be/8ovlN01dVRk
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
🗓️🇭🇺✍️🎶 #OnThisDay 1967 Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály died. Here's his "Bells" piece performed by Japan's KIRIKU Handbell Ensemble
▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0K5...
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
#OnThisDay 1953 Ukrainian-born composer Sergei Prokofiev died. Here’s "March" from his opera "The Love for Three Oranges" performed by Estonia's fabulous Arsis Handbell Ensembles
▶️ youtu.be/Mx52Hf9T8-U
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
🗓️🇧🇷✍️🎶 #OnThisDay 1887 Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos was born - here’s Dansa (Martelo) from his Bachianas Brasileiras #5 performed by Puerto Rico’s Vivace Handbell Ensemble with viola soloist
▶️ youtu.be/jAnno0ve56w
#Handbells #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
🗓🐘 It's #WorldWildlifeDay
#WildlifeDay today so here's Baby Elephant Walk performed by Purdue University Handbell Ensemble
▶️ youtu.be/uXfO7b8qGDw
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
Yesterday's bell ringing at Trinity Lutheran Church - Staten Island
youtu.be/XveDBBSj074: Abide With Me, which I have arranged for 6-in-hand handbells. Accompanied by the wonderful Trent Whisenant on piano.
#handbells #AbideWithMe #lentmusic
🗓️🇵🇱✍️🎶 #OnThisDay 1810 Polish composer Frédéric Chopin was born. Here’s his Tristesse, which it is said Chopin considered to be his most beautiful melody, performed by Estonia’s Arsis Handbell Ensembles
▶️ youtu.be/GCKKbAeShZM
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
🗓️🏴✍️🎶 #OnThisDay 1848 English composer C Hubert Parry, most famous for choral song “Jerusalem”, was born. Here’s “Jerusalem” performed by Japan’s Andante Handbell Ensemble
▶️ youtu.be/xmSS_ofpoN8
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
Bass chimes and a room full of handbells
Putting on my musician hat for the rest of the week. 🔔🎶 #handbells
Today is #NationalTellAFairyTaleDay so here's traditional Scottish Gaelic lullaby "Faery's Lament" performed by Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ensemble
#NationalTellAFairyTaleDay2026
#TellAFairyTaleDay
▶️ youtu.be/LOSVYv8MP_g
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
#OnThisDay 1950 Scottish actor, comedian & singer/songwriter Sir Harry Lauder died. Here’s his "Keep Right On To The End Of The Road" performed by Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ensemble
▶️ youtu.be/gI-APGe90NQ
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
#OnThisDay 1943 English singer-songwriter, & lead guitarist of the Beatles, George Harrison was born. Here’s his “Here Comes The Sun” performed at HRGB National Residential Ringing Week 2017 under the direction of Helen Secker
▶️ youtu.be/HhS9bnUT7NA
#Handbells
#OnThisDay 1704 French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier died. Here’s his most famous work (used as signature tune of Eurovision) “Te Deum” performed by Dunblane Cathedral Children’s & Youth Handbell Ensemble
▶️ youtu.be/A_73xFHNZqs
#Handbells #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
🗓️🏴🎶✍️ #OnThisDay 1934 English composer Edward Elgar died, so here's his "Salut d'Amour" performed by Japan's Kobe YMCA Handbell Ensemble
▶️ youtu.be/E3dhENMEAys
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
🗓️🇫🇷✍️🎶 #OnThisDay 1844 French composer Charles-Marie Widor was born so here’s his Toccata from Symphony No 5 performed by BellForza handbell ensemble
▶️ youtu.be/A-jMGVg7-6Q
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #Handbells4All #HandbellsRFun
🗓️🇮🇹🎶 #OnThisDay 1816 Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville premiered. Here’s a performance by the handbell ensemble of St John's Lutheran Church, Orange, California, USA of the Overture to the Barber of Seville
▶️ youtu.be/YksWWEDK8Kc
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #Handbells4All #HandbellsRFun
🗓️🇮🇹✍️🎶 #OnThisDay 1743 Italian cellist and composer Luigi Boccherini was born. Here's his Largo from Sonata in Do minor performed on handbells, cello and organ
▶️ youtu.be/WtA2W27WtlA
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
#OnThisDay 1944 Welsh composer Karl Jenkins was born. Here’s his Palladio performed by Hershey Handbell Ensemble
▶️ youtu.be/XA2dfBGpci8
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
🗓️🇩🇪🎶✍️ #OnThisDay 1883 German composer Richard Wagner died. Here’s the prelude from his “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” performed by Japan’s Andante Handbell Ensemble
▶️ youtu.be/tnf2nLK1Lc0
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
🎶 #OnThisDay 1924 George Gershwin's “Rhapsody in Blue” was premiered, so here’s a performance of it by Estonia’s fabulous Arsis Handbell Ensembles
▶️ youtu.be/OJbswEu1FP8
#HandbellMusic #Handbells4All #Handbells #HandbellsRFun
HRGB Scottish Regional Association Spring Rally & AGM will be held on Sat 14 Mar 2026 in Bankfoot, near Perth
Click on link below for more information, registration form & details of the massed ringing music.
www.hrgbscotland.org.uk/calendar/hrg...
#Handbells #Handbells4All #HandbellsRFun
🌹 Did you know it's #RoseDay🥀today? So here's a performance by Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ensemble of "My Love is like a Red, Red Rose"
▶️ youtu.be/elV6MIVec0s
#Handbells #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
For #WorldUkeleleDay today here’s a ukelele with Valdez High School handchimes & handbells ensemble performing “Over The Rainbow”
▶️ youtu.be/4wt5zy5AjMw
#Handbells #Handbells4All #HandbellMusic #HandbellsRFun
Dunblane Cathedral Handbell Ringers contributed to music of worship in Dunblane Cathedral's morning service today. It was livestreamed via Dunblane Cathedral's YouTube channel which can be viewed here:
▶️ www.youtube.com/live/Ss90pop...
#Handbells #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
#OnThisDay 1937 US composer Philip Glass was born. Here's handbell performance by Bow River Handbell Musicians Society of Alberta, Canada, of his main title music from the TV series "Tales from the loop"
▶️ youtu.be/bh1TE0n_u8c
#Handbells #HandbellsRFun #Handbells4All
