Music and Fine Arts
Snider has a strong fine arts program with a state finalist marching band, concert bands, orchestras, and award-winning choirs (3 concert choirs, 5 vocal jazz choirs, and 2 madrigal choirs). The color guard and winter guard recently earned a silver medal in IHSCGA Class A competition in 2009.
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Famous quotes containing the words music and, music, fine and/or arts:
“He turned out to belong to the type of publisher who dreams of becoming a male muse to his author, and our brief conjunction ended abruptly upon his suggesting I replace chess by music and make Luzhin a demented violinist.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“A woman’s two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.”
—Loretta Lynn (b. 1930)
“[I]f a Fine Lady thinks fit to giggle at Church, or a Great Beau come in drunk to a Play, either shall be sure to hear of it in my ensuing Paper: For merely as a well-bred Man, I cannot bear these Enormities.”
—Richard Steele (1672–1729)
“Musick is certainly a very agreeable Entertainment, but if it would take the entire Possession of our Ears, if it would make us incapable of hearing Sense, if it would exclude Arts that have a much greater Tendency to the Refinement of human Nature; I must confess I would allow it no better Quarter than Plato has done, who banishes it out of his Common-wealth.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)