Name: Tower Music: Ancient, Old & New
Start: 2024-07-26T18:45:00
Location: Sunset Center

Alex Camphouse

Dominic Favia

Greg Smith

Leonard Ott

Tom Hornig

Wayne Solomon

Tim Dent

Suzanne Mudge

Carmel Bach Festival

Tower Music is one of the oldest traditions at the Carmel Bach Festival. It began in 1936 with the Heralding Trombones, led by two generations of the Stewart Family, Chandler and son Gordon, and the trombone quartet opened every Festival in the early days. The Stewart Family performed well into the 1960’s until the Festival Orchestra brass section was asked to carry on the tradition as it does today. They played from the balcony window of the old Sunset Auditorium which opened onto the parking lot – the window is still there, overlooking the foyer – and from the Carmel Mission bell tower, thus earning the nickname “Tower Music.”