About
Hallelujah.
Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in the sky, His stronghold.
Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him for His exceeding greatness.
Praise Him with blasts of the horn; praise Him with harp and lyre.
Praise Him with timbrel and dance; praise Him with lute and pipe.
Praise Him with resounding cymbals; praise Him with loud-clashing cymbals.
Let all that breathes praise the Lord.
Hallelujah.
In making music, all humans - whether they know it or not - celebrate God’s good creation. Christians who make music, offering their efforts up as an act of worship, knowingly join all creation in returning praise to the Creator who, in love, made it. In so doing, we can help music achieve its ultimate and highest purpose - to praise God who inspired it. The Calvin College Orchestra, therefore, is more than just a musical organization and as such has a broader mission than simply a musical one. We study and strive for musical excellence to the end that God will be glorified as:
Our Mission statement:
“We worship God through the offering up of our music to Him in faith;
We serve one another within the ensemble as a community of faith;
We point people who listen to our music to Christ in faith;
Thus we study and play music from many times and places rejoicing with God in His good creation."
The Calvin College Orchestra is a nationally reputed ensemble of instrumentalists drawn from various academic disciplines throughout the College community. Along with its participation in campus-wide events and major tours, each semester the orchestra performs two major concerts. Concerts include Fall Music Festival, Fall Concert, a Concerto Concert, a Spring Concert and accompanying the Calvin Oratorio Society in its annual production of Handel’s Messiah.
Calvin Orchestra rehearses Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday from 4:40-5:40 p.m.
Listening Samples
Symphony No. 104 in D "London",
Mvt. I (excerpt, 3:00) |
MP3 |
Prelude to the Afternoon
of a Faun
(excerpt, 3:15) |
MP3 |
| Suite No. 1 for Small
Orchestra,
Mvt. I (excerpt, 0:24) Igor Stravinsky |
MP3 |
Videos
The following video excerpt is from the 2008 Fall Music Festival DVD - Our Hands and Hearts We Offer: Fall Music Festival 2008:
Orchestra - Fall Music Festival 2008 from Calvin College on Vimeo.
The following video excerpts are from the 2008 Orchestra DVD - Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D "Titan":
Movement I from Calvin College on Vimeo.
Movement II from Calvin College on Vimeo.
Movement III from Calvin College on Vimeo.
Movement IV from Calvin College on Vimeo.
