Congratulations to National Hockey League champions Chicago Blackhawks whose jaunty fight song “Here Come the Hawks” was the handiwork of the late Dick Marx, who studied in DePaul’s School of Music.

The 1968 anthem was composed and produced by Dick Marx & Associates, a Chicago-based commercial music studio that created many of the advertising industry’s most familiar jingles from the 1950s to the 1980s. Marx, a jazz pianist and arranger and the father of popular singer-songwriter Richard Marx, died in 1997 at 73. An endowed scholarship in the name of Dick Marx benefits students in DePaul’s School of Music.

DePaul's School of Music, founded in 1912, is recognized for excellence in music performance and teaching. The school offers high-caliber, challenging programs in performance, composition, music education, jazz studies, performing arts management and sound recording technology. Faculty members, who bring a wealth of knowledge and professional music experience to their teaching, are drawn from and perform with many of Chicago’s renowned music organizations, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Chicago Chamber Musicians and Grant Park Symphony Orchestra.