Jazz 1 finishes year with virtual Essentially Ellington
By Amy Harris, Hawkeye Staff
June 24, 2020
In mid-May, the posters for Essentially Ellington arrived from New York, all shipped to the home of sophomore Jazz 1 trumpeter Eli Faris. Throughout the day, band members or their parents arrived as Faris set out individually wrapped posters in paper grocery bags on his driveway. After contactless pic...
Celebrating the healing power of music
By Ritika Khanal, Op/Ed Editor
March 10, 2020
I recently marked my 10th year of attending the Wintergrass Youth Academy at the Hyatt Hotel in Bellevue. The academy is part of the Wintergrass Festival, which is an annual bluegrass festival. Bluegrass lovers from all over the nation gather in Bellevue for the weekend to play music together and enjo...
On a (drum) roll!
By Amy Harris, Hawkeye Staff
March 5, 2020
After 300 miles on the road, senior jazz 2 pianist Lindee Cutler and I joined the rest of the band halfway through featured artist Sean Jones’ set, with drummer Chris Brown, bassist Dave Captein and George Colligan on piano. The former Jazz at Lincoln Center lead trumpet’s quartet was midway...
Jazz 1 on the road to prestigious festival
By Theresa Van, Lifestyle Editor
March 2, 2020
Terrace’s Jazz Ensemble 1 has once again been selected to participate in the 25th annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival hosted by Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. The group was informed on Feb. 12. Essentially Ellington is an event held each year duri...
Photo Gallery: Drama Department pulls off “Godspell”
By Caroline Erdey, Photo Editor
February 26, 2020
Orchestra and choir unite for last concert of the decade
By Damaris Ibrahim, Hawkeye Staff
January 4, 2020
On Tuesday, December 17, choir and orchestra students came together for their annual winter concert. The concert was especially notable as the last one of the decade for both Terrace’s choir and orchestra. Under the friendly gaze of the snowman behind them, the groups put on marvelous performances f...
Jazz celebrates holidays, previews things to come
By Amy Harris, Hawkeye Staff
December 26, 2019
Winter is perhaps the busiest time of year for the Mountlake Terrace Jazz bands. They just finished a round of clinics with esteemed musician Justin DiCioccio less than a week after coming back from a three-day retreat. Jazz 1 has begun recording for Hot Java, Cool Jazz, and they’re getting ready for a t...
Quilters: Intersectional issues through a historical lens
By Maggie O'Hara and Rachel Davis
December 23, 2019
The MTHS drama department’s first production of the 2019-2020 school year was “Quilters,” a musical based on the book “The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art” by Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley. The musical itself was written by Molly Newman, with lyrics and music composed by Barbara Damas...
Terrace choirs carol for elderly
By Nina Otebele, Outreach Manager
December 20, 2019
“Candlelight, angel light, Firelight and starglow, Shine on his cradle 'til breaking of dawn. Gloria, gloria, in excelsis deo, Angels are singing, the Christ child is born.” So go the lyrics to “Candlelight Carol,” the final song sung by the MTHS choir at Vineyard Park at Mountlake Terrace, a qu...
Jazz 1 exhilarates crowd at Hot Java, Cool Jazz
By Amy Harris, Hawkeye Staff
April 11, 2019
The Paramount Theater has over 3,000 seats, and every March, Hot Java, Cool Jazz (HJCJ) fills all of them. Every year, elite jazz bands from five Washington high schools are invited to perform on behalf of Starbucks for a night filled with the very things the event is named after. On March 15, MTHS’ very own Jazz Ensemble 1 was one such band. With an interior decorated in Beaux Arts style, the Baroque furnishings contrasted with the percolating caffeine and the modern guests who mille...
Choirs leave audience cheering at SE Quad Concert
By Theresa Van, Lifestyle Editor
March 14, 2019
The Southeast Quad Choir Concert was held at MTHS on Thursday, March 7, from 7 to 8 p.m. The eventful night began after all the energetic kids stopped running around the Terraceum with choir director T. J. Sullivan giving a small introduction about himself, the different choirs present and the quad con...
Choir and orchestra unite at winter concert
By Amy Harris, Hawkeye Staff
January 13, 2019
For this year’s winter concert on December 18, the MTHS choirs and orchestras both showed their individual strengths, but also came together in a show of interdisciplinary camaraderie in the music department in a festive and upbeat display. After an introduction by choir director Thomas Sull...