Music
The music department has offerings for students interested in furthering their interest and talents. Opportunities include the Bulldog Marching Band, symphonic band, orchestra, wind ensemble, jazz band, pep band, chorus, and a show choir named 'Surround Sound'. These performing groups have been involved in athletic intermission presentations, state contests, as well as department sponsored trips to contests. The Bulldog Marching Band has won 19 consecutive division 1 ratings at the state marching band competition since 1991.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“Did the kiss of Mother Mary
Put that music in her face?
Yet she goes with footstep wary,
Full of earth’s old timid grace.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“I cannot say what poetry is; I know that our sufferings and our concentrated joy, our states of plunging far and dark and turning to come back to the world—so that the moment of intense turning seems still and universal—all are here, in a music like the music of our time, like the hero and like the anonymous forgotten; and there is an exchange here in which our lives are met, and created.”
—Muriel Rukeyser (1913–1980)
“I’ve come close to matching the feeling of that night in 1944 in music, when I first heard Diz and Bird, but I’ve never got there.... I’m always looking for it, listening and feeling for it, though, trying to always feel it in and through the music I play every day.”
—Miles Davis (1926–1991)