Welcome to
Pickering High School's Music Department
2025-2026
Friday, October 17th, 2025
Friday, October 17th, 2025
This week, in 1976, Stevie Wonder‘s Songs In The Key Of Life went to No.1 on the US album chart, with hits such as, “Isn’t She Lovely,” “I Wish,” and “Sir Duke”
Attention (PHS Music! We are taking a busload of people to the Toronto Symphony on Wednesday, October 22nd! $40 and we'll be back for after school Permission forms are now available for download and in room 105! Pay in cash or 'SchoolCash' online!!
PHS BANDS Practice Schedule 2025-2026 be at your practices!
Mondays: Senior Jazz Ensemble, 2:15-4:00pm
Tuesdays: Senior Concert Band, 2:15pm-3:45pm
Junior Jazz Ensemble (optional) 7:00am-7:50am
Wednesdays: Junior Concert Band, 2:15-3:30pm
Thursdays: Junior Jazz Ensemble, 2:15-4:00pm
Senior Jazz Ensemble (optional) 7:00am-7:50am
Fridays: Orchestra 2:15pm-3:30pm
The more you practice...(you can finish this yourself!)
Important Dates for 2025-2026 (subject to update/change)
Wed, Oct. 22nd -Toronto Symphony Orchestra annual trip
Thursday, Oct. 30th -annual PHS Music Pumpkin Carving Contest
Thursday, Dec. 4th -Holiday Concert
Tuesday, Dec. 16th, -annual PHS Music Gingerbread House Decorating Contest
February 2026 -OBA Concert Band Festival
-Humber College/Next Generation Jazz Festival
-SOBF Jazz Festival
Thursday, April 16th, 2026 -annual Jazz Cafe
Thursday, May 7th, 2026 -annual Spring Concert
Monday-Tuesday May 11-12th, 2026 -National Musicfest trip (tentative)
PHS Music Council Room: wgz7mlj
Remember these guys? Zariff, Josh, Nathan, Brendan...PHS Senior Jazz Alumni
Nathan Scott with Senior Jazz at Humber...our awesome drummer...2 years in a row!!
Steve Mancuso from Humber College in the Fall...great workshop for PHS Music!!!
Oct. 13th, 1965, The Who recorded 'My Generation' at Pye studios, London. When released as a single it reached No.2 on the UK chart
Oct. 13th, 1984, Stevie Wonder started a 3-week long no. 1 hit with 'I Just Called to Say I Love You', in the States and the UK
Oct. 14th, 1968, The Jackson Five make their national TV debut on 'ABC TV's Hollywood Palace
Oct. 15th, 1956, Little Richard records 'Good Golly Miss Molly',
Oct. 15th, 1988, UB40 went to No.1 on the US singles chart with their version of the Neil Diamond song 'Red Red Wine', also a No.1 hit in the UK
Oct. 15th, 1966, The Four Tops started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Reach Out, I'll Be There'
Oct. 16th, 1976, In 1976, Stevie Wonder‘s Songs In The Key Of Life went to No.1 on the US album chart, with hits such as, “Isn’t She Lovely,” “I Wish,” and “Sir Duke,”
Oct. 16th, 1968, Bobbie Gentry was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with the Burt Bacharach and Hal David song 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again,' the singers only UK No.1.
Oct. 16th, 1982, Culture Club appeared on UK TV's Top Of The Pops performing 'Do You Really Want To Hurt Me'
Oct. 17th, 2017, On October 17, 2017, Canadian rock icon Gord Downie, of the Tragically Hip, died at the age of 53, following a two-year-long battle with brain cancer
Oct. 17th, 1964, Manfred Mann started a two week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Do Wah Diddy Diddy'
Oct. 17th, 1981, Christopher Cross started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with 'Arthur's Theme, (Best That You Can Do)', his second US No.1.
Oct. 13th, 1926, Bassist Ray Brown born in Pittsburgh, PA.
Oct. 15th, 1947, Pianist/composer Thelonious Monk makes his first recordings as a leader, 1947.
Oct. 18th, 1961, Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis born New Orleans, LA
Oct. 14th, 1930, 1930 George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's musical "Girl Crazy," starring Ginger Rogers and featuring the debut of Ethel Merman
Oct. 15th, 1886, 1886 Modest Mussorgsky's musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain" premieres at Kononov Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia
Oct. 15th, 1905, 1905 Claude Debussy's symphonic sketch "La Mer" premieres in Paris
Oct. 17th, 1831, 1831 Felix Mendelssohn's 1st Piano concert in G, premieres in Munich, Germany, with the composer as soloist
Oct. 18th, 1904, 1904 Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony premieres in Cologne, Germany
1904 Gustav Mahler's 5th symphony premieres in Cologne, Germany
Stevie Wonder
Luke Singh
Congratulations, Luke...and good luck in the future!