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:
“Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)
“... the creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“What ails it, intrinsically, is a dearth of intellectual audacity and of aesthetic passion. Running through it, and characterizing the work of almost every man and woman producing it, there is an unescapable suggestion of the old Puritan suspicion of the fine arts as such—of the doctrine that they offer fit asylum for good citizens only when some ulterior and superior purpose is carried into them.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)