Music in the heart while staying apart
Caroline Marsden and Greta Pankratz
August 17, 2020
Musicians share how they feel about the new reality the music department faces. In the upcoming unprecedented school year, everything will be different. For music students, developing a feeling of normalcy will be extra challenging. In a pre-COVID19 music department, students would congregate in lar...
Student musicians tug at the heartstrings
Miles Bennett
May 27, 2020
The year’s Music Department seniors share their thoughts on the year The VHS Music Department’s pre-quarantine year was filled to the brim with successes, according to its members and Music Department Head Paul Hunt. According to Hunt, some of the biggest successes of the year were the...
District Choir concert proves to be therapy for the ears
Yasmin Myers and Riley Ramirez
January 23, 2020
A night filled with choral, pop and jazz selections. On Jan. 17, parents and friends gathered in Buena High School’s auditorium, ready to hear the musical chords sung by various school’s choir programs, including Balboa Middle, DATA, Ventura High and Buena High. With an opening greeting from Buena...
Benefit Concert tugs at the heartstrings
Miles Bennett
October 27, 2019
[dropcap size=small]O[/dropcap]n the eve of Oct. 23, students donned black ties and dresses, readied their instruments, and transformed the Ventura High School auditorium. That evening, VHS Music Department Head Paul Hunt’s students joined in musical matrimony to produce a concert that left audience...
The last note of the year: VHS Music performs 2018-2019’s final concert
Sarah Clench
June 4, 2019
Ventura High School’s Wind Ensemble Honors and Symphonic Orchestra held their last concert of the year on May 23 at 7 p.m. in the Ventura High School auditorium. Wind Ensemble Honors performed for the first half of the show, with pieces by Schwantner, Sparke, Nelson and Marquez. Senior Kirk Mellrin...
Photos from the VHS Music Department’s Festival Concert
Caroline Marsden
March 18, 2019
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VHS: Shining With Talent
Jessica Johnson
February 19, 2019
The Ventura Unified School District will be having its 18th annual Festival of Talent from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on March 23. The show will be held at Ventura High School. The proceeds from the show will support innovative classroom grants. Auditions were held on Feb. 8 and 15 at Buena High School and we...
Dudeo Perez is rocking out!
Douglas Sandford
January 21, 2019
On Jan. 2, 2019, the new band Dudeo Perez put out their first album “Allons’y.” In this album, Dudeo Perez released 10 songs. With themes of “failed anti-heroes, friendly alien encounters, an all-you-can-eat sushi house, and a young boy who eats lunch by himself,” Dudeo Perez gives the...
Swinging into the new year: three ensembles show case their jazz
Lola Bobrow
January 20, 2019
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Three of Ventura’s ensembles tug on the heartstrings of a filled auditorium
Saida Delgadillo and Tanya Turchyn
December 11, 2018
Students who all share passion for music came together Thursday night, Dec. 6, to showcase a performance by three different ensembles. The groups were taught by Paul Hunt, but while in concert, were led both by Hunt and various student conductors. [huge_it_slider id="74"] The first performance of t...
Prelude to Concerto: String Orchestra prepares for Dec. 6 Concert
Micah Wilcox
November 19, 2018
Following Ventura and Buena High School’s joint Wind Ensemble Fall Concert on Wednesday, the music department is warming up for Dec. 6-- the String Orchestra Winter Concert. "We are playing a number of different pieces, [but] nothing is finalized just yet,” said music director, Paul Hunt. “I...
