The Hawkeye

There’s much to celebrate as we wind down 1st quarter

By Greg Schellenberg, Principal • November 9, 2021

I’d like to take a moment to talk about how amazing Homecoming Week was at MTHS. It felt just right to have the level of Homecoming energy that we had on campus – a full two years since our previous...

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...

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...

Symphonic Band and Chamber Winds amaze at winter concert

By Amy Harris, Hawkeye Staff • January 15, 2020

Backstage on December 17, the large MTHS Symphonic Band whispered excitedly before they went on stage. “It’s our last concert of the decade,” someone quipped, probably for the hundredth time. The...

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...

MTHS Students Participate In Global Climate Strike

By Nathaniel Reyes, News Co-Editor • September 29, 2019

At 11:30 a.m. on Friday, September 20, a group of nine students and three teachers sign-waved to build support for action against climate change outside the school along 44th Ave W. The group was led by...

Favorites return and freshmen debut at Jazz Collective concert

By Amy Harris, Hawkeye Staff • September 9, 2019

On the evening of August 29, students from the MTHS Jazz program came together for an intimate, hidden gem of a concert. The standard format, in which performers are segregated into their classes --...

A new chapter begins

By Ritika Khanal, Co-Editor-In-Chief • June 10, 2019

Throughout his four years of high school, senior Jacob Knight had the opportunity to perform in front of thousands of people, participate in an MTHS theater production of “Little Shop of Horrors” and...

Terrace jazz stuns at the Oregon Jazz Festival

By Amy Harris, Hawkeye Staff • February 12, 2019

Many Mountlake Terrace jazz students were not in a good mood on Saturday, Jan. 26. The day prior, they had to get up early and leave the school at 7:30 a.m. to take a seven and a half hour trip to the...

Band concert showcases southeast quadrant student talent

By Paxtyn Merten, News Editor • May 19, 2015

Family, friends, teachers and musicians packed into the Terraceum on Thursday night as bands from MTHS, Brier Terrace Middle School (BTMS) and sixth graders from various schools performed at the southeast...

Hot Java Cool Jazz performance earns standing ovation

By Hannah Schuster, Hawkeye staff • March 24, 2015

Hot Java Cool Jazz sold out the Paramount Theatre last Friday, with more than 3,000 people in attendance. This marked the 20th annual celebration of the event and featured performances by MTHS Jazz...

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...