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:
“When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.”
—Daniel Webster (1782–1852)
“Eliot dead, you saying,
“And who is left to understand my jokes?
My old Brother in the arts . . . and besides, he was a smash of
poet.””
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)
“all the arts lose virtue
Against the essential reality
Of creatures going about their business among the equally
Earnest elements of nature.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)