As winter settled in, tired students trekked down the band stairs slowly. Though they were going to band, not a single one of them had an instrument case. With COVID-19 guidelines, they were unable to play indoors, but with the harsh New England winter outside, playing outside wasn't an option. Now,...

COVID-19 has affected athletes as well as band, orchestra, and chorus students. Under the new COVID-19 guidelines, band, orchestra, and chorus students have had to find a balance between maintaining a safe environment and maximizing their experience as an ensemble. The Ghostwriter asked the band, orchestra,...

Online learning has been a challenge for both teachers and students alike. One program facing exceptionally large obstacles is the music program. The music program is an essential part of Westford Academy, and now, its teachers face a new, unprecedented challenge: How can we make music together while...

Senior Eunice Pak will be attending the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at the University of Michigan this upcoming fall to further her music career. There, she will be majoring in percussion performance and she is considering minoring in German, but she has not yet decided. Pak has had many...

On Friday, March 15, students in the band and orchestra at WA came together for a Listening Lunch that spanned all four lunch blocks and had five pieces. Listening Lunches are normally filled with small groups of performers or soloists, and so the combination of band and orchestra for a much larger-scale...

Soon after George Arsenault left Westford Academy at the end of the last academic year, Michael Soo came in to take his place as the school's band director. After coming to Westford Academy as a student teacher in college, Soo is returning as an official member of the faculty. His brother, Mark Soo,...

On Tuesday December 5th, 2017, the Westford Academy Concert, Marching, and Symphonic Bands performed in the PAC to start off the Winter Concert. The Grey Ghost Marching Band began the performance with 'Sgt. Pepper', a rendition followed by the Percussion Ensemble's 'C.C. Conga', by Thomas P. Hannum. Intermission...

If one were to approach any stranger in the tri-state area with seventeen to twenty-five years on his or her back, and utter a simple question about The Shins, he would be almost immediately greeted by a distant gaze of nostalgia. From tattooed Greenwich village hipsters, to Columbia University graduates,...

The Westford Academy band and chorus programs hosted a winter concert in the PAC on Wednesday December 7th at 7pm. Performances included the honors and general programs of both ensembles, as well as the symphonic band, and the Tri-M Music Honor Society induction ceremony.  

For this episode of Noteworthy, we featured senior Taiga Kambara.