Calvin’s music department recently hired a community music administrator and music events coordinator. These hires reflect a renewed focus on growth in the music department, Dr. Tiffany Engle, co-chair...

Calvin is following a national trend by using a higher percentage of adjunct professors in recent years, though it still falls below the national average. According to a recent report by the American...

Calvin’s music department is now offering jazz band as a class. In past years, jazz band has been offered as a music class similar to Wind Ensemble or Campus Choir, but due to the waning interest, it...

Three of Calvin’s academic departments are adapting to smaller full-time faculty numbers this year after seven professors took the voluntary buyouts offered in May. The buyouts were an attempt to bring...

Last Tuesday, President Le Roy sent out an email that resulted in a flurry of mixed emotions among the history, music and art and art history departments. Professors from these departments now have...

The Calvin Music Department has concerts nearly every week, but few are as unorthodox and entertaining as Cello Cabaret. This Saturday at 3 p.m. in the CFAC Recital Hall, 20 cellists will be performing...

The majority of the academic cuts recommended by President Le Roy’s cabinet are in the arts departments, according to Calvin’s new prioritization report released to faculty and staff on Monday morning. Specific...

Capella, Calvin’s top choir, has made a habit of setting high expectations for each of their performances. At their Late Night with Capella concert on Friday, they continued to exceed those expectations. As...

Since September 2002, Joel Navarro has served as a professor and conductor for Calvin’s number of choirs, including Capella, Campus Choir, Oratorio Society, Lyric Singers and the Meistersingers. But...

On a day usually abuzz with orientation excitement, one incoming freshman strayed from the beaten path and arrived at a room off the library lobby, where a small group of staff and faculty had gathered. The...

Professor Bert Polman, chair of the music department at Calvin, passed away around 7 a.m. Monday morning after an extended battle with cancer. He had recently been admitted to hospice care after his...

Having conducted choirs all over the world, Dr. Shangkuan, director of the Calvin College Women’s Chorale, speaks from experience when she reminds her choirs that “you never know what, when, or how...