The 2021 fall play, Winter Break by Joe Calarco, will be performed LIVE in the
Auditorium of Maine West High School.
Come out to reconnect with LIVE THEATRE! To learn more about this play, please see this article published in the Daily Herald!
Thursday, October 21, 2021 at 4:00 p.m.
Friday, October 22, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 23, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets are available at the door or online in advance HERE. Please note that online ticket sales close 2 hours prior to each performance. Tickets may be purchased at the door with cash or by check.
Maine West student musicians have earned placement into the 2021 Illinois Music Education (ILMEA) All-District Band, Choir and Orchestra. Audition videos were submitted to ILMEA, judged by a panel of professional musicians, and the top placing scores were selected for participation in the District 7 Honors Ensembles. These elite student musicians will be performing in the District Music Festivals on Saturday, November 6, 2021.
Selection to these ensembles is an incredible honor and accomplishment, a testament to years of practice. The Fine Arts faculty are tremendously proud of these students, who will be representing Maine West and District 207 at this prestigious event.
Congratulations to the following Maine West musicians earning ILMEA District Honors:
SENIOR CHORUS
Dulf Vincent Genis (12) - Bass
SENIOR ORCHESTRA
Augustus Freitag (12) - Cello
SENIOR BAND
Aurelia Lawson (11) - Flute
To learn more about ILMEA, please visit their website.
Tonight, members of the 2021 Marching Warriors performed the entirety of this season's show, Equinox, for the last time under the lights of the Maine West Stadium. Joined by hundreds of fans cheering them on, tonight's show was a testament to the tremendous efforts and achievement of the entire Marching Band, as well as their dedicated directors, Mr. Gerstmayr, Mr. Kent and Mr. Bonslater.
Senior members of the band were honored tonight for their dedication and contributions to the Maine West band program.
Congratulations, Marching Warriors, on a successful marching band season! It was great to see you back in action, and we can't wait to hear your continued sonic success in the concert hall!
Thank you to the parent volunteers in the Maine West Fine Arts Boosters for your support of tonight's event, selling our new line of Fine Arts merch, passing out programs, and working the concession stand.
HERE are more pictures from the 2021 Maine West Marching Band Exhibition.
Tomorrow, October 16th at 7:30 p.m. in the Maine West Stadium: Come out to see your Marching Warriors play one last outdoor show this season! This event will honor the Class of 2022, and include a full performance of this year's show, EQUINOX.
Tonight the Marching Warriors welcomed nearly 100 FUTURE MARCHING WARRIORS from District 62 middle schools: Chippewa, Algonquin, and Iroquois! Maine West students flexed their leadership skills in breakout sectionals where they taught the middle school students how to play a number of songs, including the Warrior Fight Song!
The students enjoyed a pizza dinner, hosted by the Maine West Fine Arts Boosters. A big "THANK YOU" to all of the parent volunteers who came out tonight to help!
In addition to the pictures and videos below, more media can be seen in this folder.
District 62 students and families - we look forward to welcoming you to the Warrior Family in the near future!
Congratulations to the 2021-2022 Marching Warriors for their spectacular performance at tonight's Homecoming game! The energy and musicianship displayed on the field was impressive, and captured the attention of the stadium! Congratulations, also, to the Warrior Football team for their win against Maine East! Happy Homecoming!
WMTH Crew - Thanks for your coverage of tonight's game! It was great to see you in action!
Thank you to the many parent volunteers and the Fine Arts Boosters for your support of the band and the WMTH crew - tonight and always!
You can view an album of pictures from today's Homecoming assembly and Homecoming game HERE.
Each season, Fellows of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the premiere training orchestra of the Chicago Symphony, are provided with resources to develop and implement a creative project of their own design. In 2020/21, Civic Fellows Joe Bricker and Hannah Christiansen used this opportunity to launch "Chicago, From Scratch," a collaborative composition program presented in partnership with the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative and Guarneri Hall.
Maine West High School Junior, Sophia Luong, learned of the program and decided to enroll. The "Chicago from Scratch" program afforded Sophia four weeks of training in music composition. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sophia wanted to write a piece that captured her experience of this unprecedented and challenging time, and used the process of writing music to reflect on some of her thoughts and feelings spurred by the pandemic. She began her compositional process by sitting at a piano and improvising, writing down musical ideas from her improvisations as they caught her interest. The result is her composition, March 2020. The piece portrays the emotions Sophia was feeling as a result of the pandemic, captures some of her observations of others' feelings and responses to the pandemic, and recognizes the political and social unrest that was occurring at the time, specifically giving attention to the Black Lives Matter movement.
Her piece, March 2020, was recorded at Guarneri Hall in Chicago on May 31, 2021, and it premiered on YouTube on September 17, 2021.
Listen to Sophia's piece, March 2020, in the video below. Her piece is the first featured in the video. Also featured is music composed by Brandon Harper, Malik Ali Muhammad, Nazeeh Shahid, and Noëlle Streuber-Eden. All of the pieces are performed by Joe Bricker, percussion and Hannah Christiansen, violin.
