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The Clinic says, "Music plays an important part in the healing mission of Mayo Clinic. Since 1928, our campus in Rochester, Minnesota, has featured a large instrument of cup-shaped bells known as a carillon, located in the tower of the Plummer Building. Now you can enjoy the carillon from any place in the world by watching live performances as they stream on camera." What is a Carillon? Wikipedia explains, "a carillon is a pitched percussion idiophone that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 cast bronze bells in fixed suspension and tuned in chromatic order so that they c...

Mayo Clinic's 93-year carillon steps into 21st century One of the microphones being set up to allow for livestreaming of carillon performances Tuesday, May 11, 2021, at the top of Mayo Clinic's Plummer Building in downtown Rochester. Audio and video equipment is being installed this week to allow for the livestreaming of performances by Mayo Clinic Carillonneur Austin Ferguson. A concert to premiere the livestream equipment is scheduled for noon on May 14. (Joe Ahlquist / jahlquist@postbulletin.com) Since 1928, when a carillon was installed atop the Plummer Building, downtown Rochester listen...

One Mayo Clinic doctor becomes the patient himself and shares importance of organ donation Mayo Clinic is on a mission to register 600 people to be organ donors. Posted: Apr 16, 2021 10:16 AM Updated: Apr 16, 2021 10:20 AM Posted By: Madelyne Watkins ROCHESTER, Minn. - More than 107,000 Americans are waiting for an organ transplant and 20 people die every day while waiting. While 95% of Americans say they would like to be a donor, only 58% are actually registered. That's according to doctors at Mayo Clinic. KIMT News 3 spoke with one surgeon who said while families grieve the loss of a lov...

The Ugliest Building in Minnesota is 90 Minutes From Rochester Get our free mobile app Many buildings here in Rochester and across Minnesota are stunning architectural masterpieces, but there's one structure that's just been named the Ugliest Building in Minnesota-- and it's only 90 minutes away. Minnesota may be known as the Land of 10,000 Lakes, but don't go to sleep on some of the way-cool modern and classically designed buildings that also call the North Star State home. Now, I'm no architect, mind you, but you I'm pretty sure you don't even have to leave Rah-Rah-Rochester to find some pr...