On January 11, 2007, Ezra Cornell's 200th birthday was celebrated with a party, historical retrospectives, and a Jennie McGraw Bell Tower chimes concert, played by chimes master, Gretchen Ryan. Read about the event in the Cornell Chronicle athttp://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan07/Ezrabirthday.aj.html
The order and names of the pieces played were:
- Happy Birthday (on audio-only version)
- Guberstag - A "traditional" tune/version of Happy Birthday (on audio-only version)
- Sonatine in G Major (Beethoven)
- Hail, Columbia (Phile, though sometimes attributed to Johannes Roth)
- Farewell to the Woodlands (Arne)
- Cornell Hymn (Quarles)
- Rise, My Soul/Amsterdam (Nares)
- Wanderlied (Schumann)
- Cornell Alma Mater
