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.
Admission and parking are free. Concessions and Fine Arts merch will be for sale by the Maine West Fine Arts Boosters.
Video footage of this event will be streamed on the Maine West YouTube Channel.
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.
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!
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.
Congratulations, Sophia! We are so proud of you!
Your Marching Warriors are BACK IN ACTION and SOUNDING GREAT...bringing so much energy to the stands!!!
Today kicked off with the drumline marching the halls, getting the entire school excited about the
GOLD RUSH assembly and the first home football game TONIGHT!
