Arts
Big Rapids has an award winning arts program. The high school choirs are frequent State goers and highly decorated Solo and Ensemblists. The visual arts program, formerly taught by world renowned medalist James Malone-Beach, has won several awards. The band and marching band programs, led by Brian Balch, has an excellent record as well at state festivals.
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Famous quotes containing the word arts:
“Insurrection is an art, and like all arts has its own laws.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)
“No doubt, to a man of sense, travel offers advantages. As many languages as he has, as many friends, as many arts and trades, so many times is he a man. A foreign country is a point of comparison, wherefrom to judge his own.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)