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Forest Hills High School Academy of Instrumental Music and Vocal Music as well as the Drama Academy provide students with rigorous conservatory style training and a challenging academic program. The Academy of Instrumental and Vocal Music provides intensive sequential instruction on all band and orchestral instruments. We offer classes in Music Theory, Composition, Performance Practice and intensive Choral instruction. Instrumental music students participate in: Jazz Band, Beginning Band, Intermediate and Concert Band, Beginning Strings, Intermediate Strings, Symphonic Orchestra, as well as Beginning and Advanced Percussion Ensemble. Vocal music students participate in Vocal Training, Intermediate Chorus, and Concert Choir. Our scholars perform at various events throughout the city, including a minimum of a Winter Concert and Spring Arts Festival annually. The Drama Academy provides students the opportunity to study the dramatic arts through a rigorous and specialized program involving acting, directing, play writing, film making, and play productions. The fall and spring theater productions showcase the arts talents of Forest Hills High School students. In addition, we offer Fine Arts (Visual Art) classes working in various mediums. Despite the pandemic, members of the Forest Hills High School Arts classes were still able to perform in three virtual concerts/arts festivals, as well as virtual theater productions during the 2020-2021 school year!
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All arts classes were conducted 100% virtually during the 2020-2021 school year. The biggest challenge, of course, was the inability to have any two musicians sing or play back their parts at the same time due to the lag on everyone's various devices. In spite of this, we were able to perform three virtual concerts, two theater productions as well as a visual art festival.