Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music - Institute offering various music-liturgical disciplines, with particular attention given to the practical, theoretical and historical aspects expressed in different cultures which comprise the Church. Also available in French and Italian.
The Assisi Music Festival - Information about this summer workshop for singers, instrumentalists, and choir directors.
Adriatic Chamber Music Festival - Information about this chamber music program held in Bonefro, Termoli. Faculty, audition and application form.
Il Bel Canto - Specialized opera courses, as well as Italian language and culture trainings, in collaboration with L'Arena di Verona foundation.
Opera Festival - Sponsored by the Centro Studi Italiani, the festival consists of courses and performances for opera singers wishing to perfect their Italian operatic repertoire. Enrollment information and general information.
Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Gustav Jung It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
-- Sydney Smith To love another person is to help them love God.
-- Søren Kierkegaard "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." (Leo Tolstoy, 1828-1910) Education "How wondrous familiar is a fool!" (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as
children.
-- Libby Gelman-Waxner "The great aim of education is not knowledge but action." (Herbert Spencer) Education
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
-- Margaret Mead My Alma mater was books, a good library . . . . I could spend the rest of my life reading, just
satisfying my curiosity.
--Malcolm X Education If I tell a lie it's only because I think I'm telling the truth.
-- Phil Gaglardi, Minister of Highways, British Columbia, Canada The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
-- George Bernard Shaw "God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes." (Joe Orton, Loot) Education
If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper "All grown-ups were once children, though few of them remember it." (Antoine de Saint Exupéry) There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.
- Paul Erdos Education By the time (the Leaning Tower of Pisa) was 10% built, everyone knew it would be a total
disaster. But the investment was so big they felt compelled to go on. Since its completion, it cost
a fortune Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
-- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting
married the social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for
all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.
-- Peter Education
Fighting is essentially a masculine idea; a woman's weapon is her tongue.
-- Hermione Gingold I'm for abolishing and doing away with redundancy.
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-- J. Heller Education The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding
outside.
-- Dag Hammarskjold I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
-- Anonymous Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
-- Dr. Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician, address to new parents Education
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
-- Francis Bacon Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
-- Phillip Brooks "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
-- Walter Winchell "Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being." (George Eliot) Education The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.
-- Sigmund Freud If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
-- Beau Brummel Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for
themselves.
-- F. Emerson Andrews Education
"Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) "An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics." (Plutarch) 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 "Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences." (Isadora Duncan) The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald Education Go away...I'm alright.
-- H. G. Wells, dying words The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I
have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
-- George Bernard Shaw "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) Education
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
- Mae West Familiarity breeds contempt -- and children.
-- Mark Twain Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you
enough chance to love you enough.
-- Dinah Shore Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha I'm not dumb, I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
-- Calvin Education A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.
-- Gloria Steinem Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "I am the lizard king. I can do anything." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Education
Losing a wife can be hard. In my case, it was almost impossible. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love,
but no friendship.
-- Oscar Wilde 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 Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.
-- D.H. Lawrence "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) Education "Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished." (Sammy Cahn) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) I have a great diet. You're allowed to eat anything you want, but you must eat it with naked fat
people.
-- Ed Bluestone Education
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world, indeed it is the only thing that ever has." (Margaret Mead, 1901-78) Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
-- Anon. There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called
marriage.
-- James Holt McGavran Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them.
-- Adlai Stevenson "The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties." (Oscar Wilde) Education Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
-- James Stephens Being in therapy is great. I spend an hour just talking about myself. It's kinda like being the guy on
a date.
-- Caroline Rhea Education
The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche "I was a total loner, not by self-design. I just didn't know what the hell to say to people. I was so shy. I used to stammer and lisp and dribble at the mouth." (Sir Anthony Hopkins, on his youth) When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby.
-- Nigerian Proverb Education Infatuation is when you think that he's as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger,
as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners. Love is
when you r Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.
-- Buddha Men have become the tools of their tools.
-- Henry David Thoreau Education
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of
the time.
-- E. B. White "If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library." (Frank Zappa) blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Marriage: the only sport in which the trapped animal has to buy the license. Why don't you write books people can read?
-- Nora Joyce, to her husband James Education "Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery." (Andy Warhol) "A man is only as faithful as his opportunity." (Chris Rock) "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Education
