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Greek Composers' Union - History, members, scheduled concerts and audio samples.

Kalomiris, Manolis - Artist's official site, featuring biography, scores, libretti and recordings.

Polykandriotis, Thanassis - Official site of the artist. Biography, information about his work and his music school.

Theodorakis, Mikis - Information about the artist; details about his biography, his works and links to International Foundation Mikis Theodorakis.

Spanoudakis, Stamatis - Official site, featuring biography, photographs and presentation of his albums.

Koutsoukeras, Panos - Includes MP3 and XG midi format downloads of songs from 1997 to 2001.

Magoulas, Yiorgos - Biography, education, activity and distinctions, audio samples of the composer.

Kourtis, Ioannis - Find out about this Greek orchestral and film music composer; includes details on his works, biography, and mp3 samples.

What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset. -- Crow "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland I once asked my history teacher how we were expected to learn anything useful from his subject, when it seemed to me to be nothing but a monotonous and sordid succession of robber baron scumbags dev "Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad." (Anonymous) "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Composers Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein MARRIAGE, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth- knowing. - Henry Louis Mencken Composers A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune. -- Anonymous "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) "I am a part of all that I have met." (Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet) Establishing yourself, furnishing a house, building up a comfortable existence, and having that menace hanging over your head all the time - no, I prefer to live in hotels, cafés, just passing through "A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime that still doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones." (Cher) Composers I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple Black We have children because we want immortality and this is the most reliable way of getting it. -- Woodrow Wyatt Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball. -- Deborah Tan Composers blah "An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion." ( To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everythin All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost; -- J.R.R. Tolkein Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one. -- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee I don't feel good. -- Luther Burbank, dying words Composers "An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions; he is neither hot nor timid." (Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, 4th earl of) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -- Winston Churchill Composers blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf I'm worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It's not holding a charge. -- Edward Chilton "...when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes) "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) Composers Launch out into the deep. One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers I love cats because I love my home and after a while they become its visible soul. -- Jean Cocteau The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Composers Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about 'short' and 'cheap'? -- Phyllis Diller "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are . . . grand Composers Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel "As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like." (Philip Larkin) "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." (Edger Allen Poe) Composers The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon. -- Joseph Heller, God Knows What do you take me for, an idiot? - General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow ennobled and none dare criticize it. -- Anonymous Composers "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method." (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl. -- Charlie Chaplin Composers If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue. -- Samuel Butler "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Marriage is a rest period between romances. Composers This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation. -- Anonymous If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is; when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Composers "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him. -- John Barrymore - last words We are the echo of the future. -- W. S. Merwin Composers I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. - Steven Wright I hate work. That's why I got married. -- Peg Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881) Composers "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive. -- Anaïs Nin Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein "What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Composers My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. --Malcolm X >From error to error one discovers the entire truth. -- Sigmund Freud "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Composers I would have made a good Pope. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." (Vladimir Chaloupka, physicist, University of Washington, regarding mankind's "Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present. -- Roger Babson Composers When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain "Feeding is a very important ritual for me. I don't trust people who don't like to eat." (Gina Gershon) "I love to doubt as well as know." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Composers One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. -- Guy Kawasaki "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth. -- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada Composers When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple "This is slavery, not to speak one's thought." (Euripides) "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." (H. H. Williams) Composers
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