“There and Everywhere” is conceived for the Yale Memorial Carillon in Harkness Tower on the campus of Yale University, and was commissioned by the Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the installation of the carillon’s full complement of fifty-four bells.

A solo violist stands immediately in front of the audience, assembled in the Branford College courtyard on the side farthest from the corner formed by Harkness Tower. Across the courtyard, at the foot of the tower, stand the four trombonists. Above are the bells.

The music flows between these three sources, sometimes passionate and intimate from the viola, sometimes noble and distant from the trombones, sometimes delicate, sometimes massive from the bells above. A lone individual, a distant community, the stars? Perhaps.

—Conrad Cummings