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	Llantilio Crossenny Festival - Brief details of the annual music and opera festival held in St Teilo's Church in May.
	Loch Shiel Spring Festival - Week-long classical music festival in the Scottish highlands, with international and local performers, held every year at the end of May.
	English Haydn Festival & Orchestra Bridgnorth - Annual 9-day festival in early June features internationally acclaimed soloists. Details include program, venue, local accommodation, festival support and booking information. Shropshire.
	St Ceciliatide - A nine-day festival of music and fine wine. Held each year in Stationers Hall, London.
	Spitalfields Festival - Annual event held in Spitalfields, London in June and December. Provides news, reviews, and contact details.
	Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music - Concerts, venues and booking information
	Ramsbottom Music Festival - Complete list of March 2000 festival results and details of future workshops, concerts and details of 2001 festival as and when available.
	Music in the Round - Chamber music festival series in Sheffield. Provides an event history, performance schedule, and photos.
	Music in Salisbury - An annual celebration of classical music with events throughout the year. Offers information on programme, performers, composers, and local community links.
	Lake District Summer Music - An annual international festival and summer school presenting artists performing and offering master classes and coaching every August in Cumbria. Includes festival programme and school details.
	Genius of the Violin 2004 - Two-week international festival devoted to the violin, in London, England from 25th March to 4th April, 2004. Includes program, press information, and management information.
	Chipping Norton Music Festival - Festival of classical and choral music, speech and drama with professional concerts held each year in March in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire. Site includes information from previous years and schedule.
	Windsor Festival - Listings and venues for the annual September festival.
	Glyndebourne Festival Opera - Official site offers full details of their May through August season including online box office. Near Lewes, East Sussex.
	Tetbury Music Festival - Annual classical music three day festival held in early October in Tetbury Church.

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She always finds her way back. -- Henny Youngman Classical Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exup�ry "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Classical To take what there "is", and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived - to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that - this doubtless is the right way to live. -- H We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. -- Anonymous Marriage means commitment. Of course, so does insanity. "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley Classical Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde blah "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) Classical "Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of g I was under medication when I made the decision not to burn the tapes. -- Richard Nixon, U.S. President If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov You can observe a lot by watching. -- Yogi Berra A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Classical Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. -- Dean Inge The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. -- Vince Lombardi Classical "I'll endorse with my name any of the following; clothing AC-DC, cigarettes, small tapes, sound equipment, ROCK N' ROLL RECORDS, anything, film, and film equipment, Food, Helium, Whips, MONEY!!" (And A scar nobly got, or a noble scar, is a good livery of honour; so belike is that. -- Shakespeare, William When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the 2 will hover, Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Classical "Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends." (William Butler Yeats) Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Classical Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight. -- Phyllis Diller Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. -- Al Capp Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be. -- Richard Mitchell, from "When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) Classical Wife: The perfect acquisition for any gentleman feeling himself to have excessive control over his personal affairs. There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs. -- Barbara Howar Who, being loved, is poor? -- Oscar Wilde Classical Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. -- Dag Hammarskjold Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. Classical For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!" -- John Greenleaf Whittier "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) "I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money." (George Classical Journalism consists largely in saying "Lord Jones died" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. -- G. K. Chesterton The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Life is not an easy matter.... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. "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) Classical "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." 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If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance for you t "Everybody knows that if you are too careful, you become so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something." (Gertrude Stein) Never raise your hands to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. -- Red Buttons Classical You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. 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