Maya Oeverman, General Assignment Editor September 30, 2024
Calvin’s music department has launched the new school year by welcoming several new programs and professors to their program.
The new programming includes the return of the Bachelor of Music Education...
For many college students, music provides a crucial soundtrack to map the highs and lows of higher education. But for three Calvin students writing and performing their own songs, music isn't just playing...
Popular music is built to be universal, and to this end often uses a specific format. Using tools such as the verse-chorus-bridge structure and the human voice, pop music is an accessible art form in terms...
At last week’s faculty senate meeting, the core curriculum committee (CCC) presented a “draft working model” of a new core to the senators for feedback. Provost Brandsen stressed that it was tentative...
Pop Music Guild/Calvin student band Liance debuted their newest album, “Bronze Age of the Nineties,” with opening band Sleepover last Saturday night in the CFAC Recital Hall.
Sleepover started...
Dialogue has re-established itself as an extremely popular creative outlet for Calvin students following an explosion of submissions for their fall 2015 issue. In fall 2013, Dialogue had 166 total submissions,...
“Bronze Age of the Nineties,” the debut album from Liance (musical vehicle of senior James Li), is an album about death. It is an album that claims life is a collection of interactions with death....
It’s an open-secret that the vast majority of billboard hits are written by a handful of middle-aged European and American songwriters. As Nathaniel Rich’s article for The Atlantic, “Hit Charade,”...
For the first time in about a decade, Dialogue has music. Usually, the student-run journal only has four categories: prose, poetry, photography and visual art. Students submit pieces, they’re run through...
Do you like Indie music? If you like attending concerts at Calvin (hopefully you do) a good majority of their concerts have indie music. If you’re not the biggest fan of indie... well, you’re left...
“As the director of the Student Activities Office, it is disappointing to bring in great acts and not have student bands flourish,” Ken Heffner said, explaining the Pop Music Guild: “Maybe this...
An end of an era is upon us, folks. Not only are classes winding down but so is Chimes.
As this is my final issue as Arts and Entertainment editor, I wanted to take this opportunity to compile a list...
