Music Arts
MLHS recognizes the importance of appreciation and participation in musical activities, not only to build skills, but also self expression and cultural awareness. We study music because of its power to change the way we think about ourselves, each other, and our God, the creator of this discipline. The following programs are available to our students.

Music in Our Lives
This one semester course is designed to improve students’ ability to listen to music and respond to it through writing and speaking. Students study music from a variety of cultures, styles, and time periods.

Chorus is for beginning music students who have little background in singing and music reading. Basic music theory and vocal production are stressed. The Chorus sings in three major concerts each year.

Concert Choir, a more advanced choir, sings various styles of sacred and secular music and reviews music reading skills. Techniques of group singing are expanded. The Concert Choir performs in school chapel services, at the major concerts of the school year, and at off-campus community events.

Symphonic Band reviews basic musicianship and learns individual and ensemble playing. The Band is comprised mainly of upperclassmen who have had five or more years of experience. The group performs a variety of music at major concerts, selected home basketball games, pep rallies, school chapel services, and off-campus community events.

Concerts
The bands and Choirs perform several concerts each year, both on and off campus, Music, ranging from the classical to popular, is performed to build the cultural awareness and sensitivity of students. Self expression skills, personal confidence, and performance decorum are all natured by these experiences.

Theater Arts
The Theater Arts program at Martin Luther High School is an important part of the secondary school experience. It offers increased awareness and sensitivity to the world around us and an increased ability to deal effectively and productively with that world and its people.

Theater includes actors, singers, and dancers on stage. It also includes the scene painters, set builders, and costume makers. Involved also are the directors, technical crew and stage hands. Students in theater learn a wide variety of lifetimes skills from carpentry to public speaking.

Martin Luther High School believes that theater is a serious discipline. The program functions as a living laboratory where students are offered opportunities to explore their creative capabilities and to find constructive, disciplined ways to express themselves. A member of the International Thepian Society, Martin Luther’s Thespian Troupe 980 sponsors a minimum of three shows each year.

Fall Play
A straight comedy/drama. Past shows have included Ten Little Indians, Whose Life is it, Anyway?, The Odd Couple, Arsenic and Old Lace, and The Taming of the Shrew.

Winter Production
On a rotating basis, a children’s play, a religious drama, a festival of one-act plays, or Reader’s Theater. Past shows have included You’re a Good Man. Charlie Brown, Hansel and Gretel, and Christ in the Concrete City.

Spring Musical
A Broadway style show with members of the school band serving in the pit orchestra. Past shows have included Annie Get Your Gun. Brigadoon, Camelot, The Sound of Music, Grease and Godspell. In 1994, a student written musical, Maya’s Dream, was presented, supported by a grant from Maspeth Federal Savings.

Drama Club & Troupe 980, International Thespian Society
The Drama Club at MLHS gives students a chance to experience all aspects of a theatrical production, from choosing a work, to publicizing the event, from desigining and building the sets to getting up on stage and performing. Students contribute to the production by playing in the pit band or by working on make-up, costumes and choreography.