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Pure Sound Discos - Mobile disco offers details of its equipment, DJs and services.

Windsor and Maidenhead Symphony Orchestra (WMSO) - Schedule, photographs, and links.

Beenham Band - Wind band, with brass and woodwind players. It plays a variety of music from classical to pop. Information including history, events and newsletter.

The Berkshire Youth Choir - Consists of girls and boys aged 14-21. Includes history, auditions, events, tours and music clips.

South Berks Concert Band - Community band with membership open to all, without audition. Information on rehearsals, music played, concerts, history and social events.

Josaka - Promotes live music in the area. News, reviews, gig guide, venue information, and a local band directory.

Berkshire Live - Discussion forum for live music in the county.

The Dezmac Roadshow - Mobile disco working within 30 miles of Windsor Castle. Details of services and contact.

Windsor & Eton Choral Society - 150 strong choir, performs in Eton College Hall and Chapel and in St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle.

Thames Valley Chorus - Founder-members of the British Association of Barbershop Singers. Includes music samples, news and history.

BBC Berkshire Music - Local news, review and gigs guides.

Berkshire Guitar Society - Small and informal group of (mainly) classical guitar players of all standards, ranging from beginners to quite advanced players. News, reviews, downloads and events.

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(Sybil Marshall) Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three categories-- those that don't work, those that break down, and those that get lost. -- Russell Baker It may be that the race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that is the way to bet. -- Damon Runyan Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror. -- Byrd Baggett Music One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love. -- Sophocles In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Music Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos 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 The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you. -- Woody Allen "I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it." (Ashleigh Brilliant) A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Goethe Music People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -- Otto von Bismarck Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1) Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2) Advising the President. 3) D The time is always right to do what is right. -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Music My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. -- INDIRA To love another person is to see the face of God. -- Lyric from Les Miserables Where there is an unknowable there is a promise. -- Thornton Wilder Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. -- Roger Babson Music The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage. We can do not great things - only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns Music Church is only society on earth that exists for the benefit of non-members. -- William Temple The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons. -- Emerson, Ralph Waldo "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man. -- Thomas Carlyle History is more or less bunk. -- Henry Ford Music It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. -- Rene Descartes Marriage is a mutual relationship if both parties know when to be mute. "Teacher played hooky. Sent message: 'Receiving instruction. Enjoying myself thoroughly. See you next week.'" (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Music A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. -- Aldous Huxley Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you." -- Erich Fromm May you learn to perform miracles: earn a living and marry off your daughters. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Francis Bacon Music I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not. -- Fran Lebowitz There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. -- George Santayana Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard Music True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. 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