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...
Ari Hoenig Trio returns for a night of rhythm
By Amy Harris, Hawkeye Staff
December 8, 2018
The MTHS theater hosted drummer Ari Hoenig and his trio, featuring pianist Nitai Hershovits and bassist Or Bareket, for the second time on December 4. The night began for jazz students right after school ended, where they reported for rehearsal with Hoenig, Hershovits and Bareket to parse out how ex...
Edmonds School District recognized for their music program
By Erin Martino, Hawkeye Staff
June 8, 2018
Once again, the Edmonds School District was honored with a Best Communities for Music Education award by the National Association of Music Merchants Foundation (NAMM) The foundation is affiliated with the California-based non-profit organization National Association of Music Merchants. According to ...
Jazz 1 brings home honors from 23rd annual Essentially Ellington
By Annika Prom, Co-Editor-in-Chief
May 19, 2018
The judges for the 23rd annual Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival (Essentially Ellington) announced the top three performing bands on Saturday, May 12 in Rose Theater in Jazz at Lincoln Center. They named the top-placing bands to be Newark Academy (Livingston, N.J.), Dillard Center for the A...
Jazz 1 takes Essentially Ellington stage by storm
By Annika Prom, Co-Editor-in-Chief
May 15, 2018
Months of practice and preparation paid off once again as Jazz Ensemble 1 (Jazz 1) took center stage at the 23rd annual Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival (Essentially Ellington) on Friday, May 11. MTHS attended as one of 15 high school jazz band finalists and one of three Washi...
Jazz 1 completes first day of Essentially Ellington with pomp
By Annika Prom, Co-Editor-in-Chief
May 12, 2018
Jazz Ensemble 1 (Jazz 1) spent nearly the entirety of their Thursday at Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) for a long day of preparation, balanced with lavish treatment, for the Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival (Essentially Ellington). They arrived at 10 a.m. on Thursday, May 10 for a ...
Jazz 1 reunites with clinician in preparation for Essentially Ellington
By Annika Prom, Co-Editor-in-Chief
May 11, 2018
Jazz Ensemble 1 (Jazz 1) kept the “work hard, play hard” principle in mind for their New York trip before attending the Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival (Essentially Ellington) by attending a practice session in the free day before the event. Jazz 1 worked with professional ja...
Jazz ensembles boost morale with Essentially Ellington send off
By Nhung Lam, Graphics Editor
May 6, 2018
The MTHS jazz ensembles hosted a send off event for Jazz Ensemble 1 (Jazz 1) on Saturday, May 5th to the 23rd annual Essentially Ellington Competition & Festival (EE) on May 10-12. Jazz 1 will leave for their trip to New York on Tuesday, May 8. The student-initiated and planned send off event was set up by j...
Jazz 1 earns standing ovation at Hot Java Cool Jazz
By Jackson Freund, Lifestyle Editor
April 11, 2018
“It’s a night to celebrate our local high schools,” Erin Combs, Starbucks Community Partnerships Manager and announcer of the night, said. The MTHS Jazz Ensemble 1 (Jazz 1) performed alongside four other high schools with a full house at the Paramount Theater in Seattle for the 23rd annual H...
Combined choirs raise their voices at Quad Concert
By Erin Martino, Hawkeye Staff
March 25, 2018
On Thursday evening, Mar. 8, choir students from elementary and middle school grades joined the MTHS Choir in the school gym and combined their voices to perform a series of songs in the SE Choir Quad Concert. It was the students’ third and final performance that week, and they brought the same energy ...