Music
The music program has been recognized for decades as an example of excellence in the Bay Area. The following are offered: Instrumental Music, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Honors Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, String Orchestra and Honors String Orchestra. The Moreau Catholic Jazz Ensemble has won the Best Overall Trophy several times at the prestigious Chabot College Jazz Festival. They have also taken First in Class at Folsom Jazz Festival, Sweepstakes award at the Next Generation Music Festival in Orlando, Command Performance at 2010 Santa Cruz Jazz Festival and the Unanimous Performance Rating at CA Music Educators Jazz Festival. Many of the Moreau Catholic musicians play with the San Francisco Youth Symphony Orchestra.
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Famous quotes containing the word music:
“The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Music is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“As if, as if, as if the disparate halves
Of things were waiting in a betrothal known
To none, awaiting espousal to the sound
Of right joining, a music of ideas, the burning
And breeding and bearing birth of harmony,
The final relation, the marriage of the rest.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“If music be the food of love, play on,
Give me excess of it that, surfeiting,
The appetite may sicken and so die.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)