Music
The Portsmouth West High School has a marching band which are known as "The Sensational Senators" who play at football games, local parades, and compete at contests. PWHS hosts an annual OMEA adjudicated competition called the "Southern Ohio Marching Band Classic" or the "West Contest." The band's current director is Mike Pierce.
OMEA State Qualifications
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- 2011
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- Theme: Cirque Du Soleil: Quidam
- Location: Green High School and Ironton High School
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- 2011
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- 2012
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- Theme: The Magical Mystery Tour: The Beatles.
- Location: The Ohio State University (The Buckeye Invitational), Green High School, and Ironton High School.
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- 2012
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“His style is eminently colloquial, and no wonder it is strange to meet with in a book. It is not literary or classical; it has not the music of poetry, nor the pomp of philosophy, but the rhythms and cadences of conversation endlessly repeated.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)