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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“Let us describe the education of our men.... What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.”
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