The Hawkeye

Choir and orchestra unite at winter concert

By Amy Harris • 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...

“Springish” band concert exhibits folk themed songs

By Jackson Freund, Hawkeye staff • March 12, 2018

The MTHS band program had their “Spring” band concert on March 1 in the theater, or as band director Darin Faul called it, “The Springish Band Concert,” due to the recent cold weather. Chamber...

“Glee” guitarist Derik Nelson to perform Friday at MTHS

By Max Tracy, Hawkeye staff • October 9, 2014

Derik Nelson is returning to MTHS for the second year in a row and will be performing in the theatre this Friday, Oct. 10th at 8:30 p.m. He comes here as part of his Take Chances Tour 2014 which fundraises...

Band plays sendoff to Disneyland, tribute to Jackson

By Nick Fiorillo • April 1, 2014

It was no ordinary concert. That's for sure. It has been an exciting, intense and saddening couple of weeks for the bands at MTHS. Jazz 1 members were excited from their third place finish at Swing...

VIDEO: Glee’s Derik Nelson makes an incredible stop at MTHS

By Erick Yanzon • October 7, 2013

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuTDcV9BXLU Lead guitarist Derik Nelson on the hit FOX coemdy show "Glee" and his band performed in the MTHS theater on September 27. MTHS was one of the high schools...

Glee’s Derik Nelson tours high schools to fundraise for music and art programs

By Shannon Beaumont • September 17, 2013

Derik Nelson, a guitarist in the hit show Glee, is touring high schools on the west coast to raise money for arts and music programs and will be coming to MTHS Friday, Sep. 27, 2013. Nelson has...

Brian Lynch joins MTHS Jazz

By Erick Yanzon • March 11, 2013

Grammy Award-Winning Trumpet Player Brian Lynch is to visit MTHS on March 16 to perform with the MTHS Jazz Ensemble 1. Brian Lynch is as comfortable negotiating the complexities of clave with Afro-Caribbean...

Chamber Winds light up the stage

By Erick Yanzon • March 9, 2013

Chamber Winds put on a show at the Spring Band Concert on March 9. The atmosphere of the MTHS theater sparked with excitement while they played "Sleep," "Florentiner March," and "Rise of the Fire...

Final band concert is a night of goodbyes for seniors

By Shannon Beaumont • June 21, 2012

As the year is getting wrapped up, so is band as the school’s instrumentalists had their final concert and Award Ceremony on Thursday, June 7. To open the night, Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble played...