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The Chimes

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The Chimes

The Student News Site of Biola University

The Chimes

Biola Symphony Orchestra performs conductor’s original composition

The Biola Symphony Orchestra performs a variety of songs at the Fall Concert.
Biola Symphony Orchestra plays Beethoven pieces as well as a composition by interim conductor Elliott Bark.
Patricia Yang, Editor-in-Chief October 25, 2022

The orchestra began to trickle onstage, taking their seats, and within moments arose the faint warm-up tunes of the strings, the brasses, the woodwinds and percussionists. It mixed with the murmurs of the audience, a quivering of excitement and anticipation in the air. The lights dimmed. The conductor,...

Songs from the heart — journeying towards mental health

Senior music therapy major Daisy Perrigan performs an original composition at the concert.
Biola’s live music event for Mental Health Awareness Week lights up Fireside Pavilion with student-composed songs.
Patricia Yang, Editor-in-Chief October 21, 2022

In the calm of a clear-skied evening, music floated from the Fireside Pavillion. A little gathering of students huddled in that area, listening to Biola’s live music event for Mental Health Awareness Week. Into the quiet poured out songs of struggles, anxieties, worries and reminders of hope. TOGETHERNESS...