Choir

The Arlington High School Choir Program is a comprehensive choral music education program involving a variety of Arlington students:

Chamber Singers: 

Audition required. This year-long commitment, varsity ensemble consists of SATB voices. The ensemble strives for performance of advanced high school repertoire. This ensemble participates in all choir concerts, football game and assembly performances, fall and spring festivals, and a spring tour. Additional rehearsals are required in this ensemble. This group gets to perform in many different places and go on a tour every spring in and out of state.

Lions Chorus:

No audition required. This is a great way for new Arlington students to get to know our program and for those who have never tried choir to get their feet wet! Beginning Tenor and Bass Ensemble (typically, guys) who participate in all concerts and one spring festival.

Treble Choir: 

No audition required. This is a great way for new Arlington students to get to know our program and for those who have never tried choir to get their feet wet! Beginning Soprano and Alto Ensemble (typically, girls) who participate in all concerts and one spring festival.

Why Study Music?

1. Music is a Science. It is exact, specific, and demands exact acoustics. A Conductor's score is a chart or graph, which indicates frequencies, intensities, volume changes, melody, and harmony all at once and with the most exact control of time. 

2. Music is Mathematical. Rhythmically, it is based on divisions of time into precise fractions which must be done instantaneously, not worked out on paper. 

3.  Music is a Foreign Language. Most of the terms are in Italian, German, or French.  The notation is certainly not English but a highly developed kind of shorthand that uses symbols to represent ideas. Music itself is the most complete and universal language.

4.  Music is History. Music reflects the environment and time of its creation,  including its national and cultural sources. 

5.  Music is Physical Education. It requires fantastic coordination of fingers, hands, arms, lip cheek, and facial muscles, and extraordinary control of the back, stomach, and chest muscles, which respond instantly to the sound the ear hears and the mind interprets.