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, fine and/or arts:
“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie;
My music shows ye have your closes,
And all must die.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)
“Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)