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...
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...
Fostering non-competition through collaborative performance: wind ensembles take the stage
Lola Bobrow
November 18, 2018
On Wednesday, Nov. 14, the Ventura High School auditorium hosted the 2018 fall concert for VHS’s Wind Ensemble, Honors Wind Ensemble and Buena High School’s debut Honors Wind Ensemble. VHS’s Wind Ensemble began the concert, performing Samuel Hazo’s “Arabesque,” Alfred Reed’s “Gre...
Benefit concert strikes a chord with audience
Miles Bennett
October 25, 2018
On Wednesday, Oct. 17, the Ventura High School music department had their annual Fall Benefit Concert. The concert made a large amount of money for the department and was met with high praise from audience members. “I was bopping. The music was rad,” said senior Miranda Burke, “And when they play...
Encore for All-State
Sailor Hawes
January 24, 2018
After going through very challenging auditions and competitions, seven of Ventura High Schools student’s made three different bands and orchestras. These auditions are held every school year and any student who takes a band class at VHS can audition. This year 12 students auditioned, but only ...
Rival schools come together to play music
November 21, 2017
On Thursday, November 16, Ventura High School Wind Ensemble Honors had their Fall Concert. This concert was free and was attended by parents and family, students and faculty members from both VHS and Buena High School. BHS opened the concert, playing “Chroma” by Carl Strommen, “Air and Dance”...
VHS music department hosts their biggest fundraiser of the year
Tobin Berger-Cahn
October 22, 2017
-By Tobin Berger-Cahn- The VHS music department hosted their annual benefit concert on Wednesday, October 18 to showcase their musicians and raise money for the program. The Studio Jazz Ensemble opened the concert with “Four on Six,” “Cantaloupe Island” and “Watermelon Man.” Each Jazz mus...
