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	BBC Proms - BBC classical music season. History, themes, booking information and the Do's and Don'ts of Promming.
	Contemporary British Composers - A growing project with over 50 British composers listed with examples of their work.
	Status Cymbal - String quartet playing classics and 20th century popular music. Provides a biography, photos, and events listings.
	Euphonet - Provide a classical music service for weddings.
	Music in Place - Music in Place seeks to celebrate excellent public spaces by performing contemporary music - starting at the British Library.
	Farndon & District Brass Band - Based in Chester. History, photos, diary, news and contact details.
	Hago - Guitar orchestra. Includes musician profiles, concert details and contact information.
	The Tippett Quartet - Young British string quartet with a special interest in new music.
	Florilegium - Concert details and discography of Florilegium, a period music ensemble.
	East Herts Concert Band - Information for members and prospective members including history, repertoire and concerts.
	Vivaldi Orchestra - A string orchestra based in Manchester, UK. Profile and history, rehearsal information, and concert dates.
	Lepper, Simon - Pianist specialising in song accompaniment. Biography and articles.
	Veira, Jonathan - International bass-baritone opera singer, who also presents his one-man show, 'An Audience With Jonathan Veira'. Biography, discography, and calendar.
	Bottone, Bonaventura - Official website of the international tenor opera singer. Includes biography, reviews, his schedule and a photograph gallery.
	Ellis, David - Composer and arranger of classical works of music. Includes his biography, discography, and a catalogue of his works.
	Promenade - Janet Shell (mezzo soprano) and Christopher Goldsack (baritone); includes profiles, sound samples, and information about their repertoire and concert programmes.

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It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous "Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul." (The Prophet Mohammad) Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? -- Fran�ois de La Rouch Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Classical Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." (Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller, 1759-1805, The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.) We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Classical "He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process. The rainbow is more beautiful than the pot at the end of it, because the rainbow is now. And the pot never turns out to be quite what I e Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Rabbi Julius Gordon "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife. -- Edgar Watson Howe Classical "It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed. -- Oscar Wilde "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Classical Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -- Karl Marx, dying words to his housekeeper The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. -- George Bernard Shaw, St. Joan University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A really busy person never knows how much he weighs. -- Ed Howe Classical "If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat." (Mark Twain) Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous "Workers of the world unite; you have nothing to lose but your chains." (Karl Marx) Classical I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. -- Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business. -- Tom Robbins blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) Classical Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith. -- Albert Einstein Realism is a corruption of reality. -- Wallace Stevens Classical "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings How could they tell? -- Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. -- Eleanor Roosevelt >From the Far East I send you one single thought, one sole idea--written in red on every beachhead form Australia to Tokyo--There is no substitute for victory! -- General Douglas MacArthur Classical Not everything that can be counted counts; and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. -- Helen Hayes Classical 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 "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) "I put on an act sometimes, and people think I'm insensitive. Really, it's like a kind of armor because I'm too sensitive. If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me, I' 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." ( Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton Classical Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. -- Socrates Classical 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. -- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4 Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken "The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People reveal themselves completely only when they are thrown out of the customary conditions of their life, for only th Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. -- Thornton Wilder "You believe that flag burning shows disrespect towards those who have fought to preserve our freedoms. Punishing protestors shows an even more profound disrespect for the ideals that these people die Classical University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger 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 Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love. -- Charlie Brown, character in "Peanuts" comic strip, created by Charles Schultz Classical There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. - Mahatma Gandhi Husband: a man who buys his football tickets four months in advance and waits until December 24 to do his Christmas shopping. "The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet." (Andy Warhol) I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day. -- Vincent Van Gogh My mother's menu consisted of two choices: Take it or leave it. -- Buddy Hackett Classical Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells Nature gave men two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most. -- George R. Kirkpatrick The gods too are fond of a joke. - Aristotle Classical "A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men." (Roald Dahl) Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson ...the fog is rising. -- Emily Dickinson, dying words To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties. -- Arthur Schopenhauer A problem is a chance for you to do your best. -- Buke Ellington Classical "I don't think it's the nature of any man to be monogamous. Men are propelled by genetically ordained impulses over which they have no control to distribute their seed." (Marlon Brando) It's important to be open-minded, but not SO open-minded that your brains fall out. -- Rick Radebaugh Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain Classical "I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones." (John Cage) Honor lies in honest toil. -- Grover Cleveland "The only way to have friends is to be one." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate. -- Dave Barry A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age. -- Meat Loaf, from the song "Wasted Youth" on the album Bat Out of Hell II Classical A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works." (Michael Douglas, as Gordon Gekko, Wall Street, 1987) Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf. -- Oscar Wilde Classical Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link | Sponsored Link |