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	Huddersfield Brass Ensemble - A group of musicians forming a brass band and various ensembles. Some of their history, rehearsal and contact details.
	Huddersfield Choral Society - The most famous but not the oldest of the Yorkshire choral societies. News of the current season, history, membership details, reviews, and details of recordings. Also includes Youth Choir, and Children's Choir.
	Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival - International annual festival attracting leading composers and performers. Information about events, programme, and educational activities. Contact details.
	Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra - History and information about a long-established orchestra; includes their concert programme, reviews, and details of supporting or joining the orchestra. Also audio clips of their music.
	Huddersfield Youth Brass Ensemble Association - Comprises three bands. Details of rehearsals, events, contacts, bookings and news.
	Kirklees Music - Online catalogue of sheet music available to order - classics, solo items, brass band, duets, recital pieces. Details for contact and ordering.
	Mrs Sunderland Musical Competition - Providing information about a prestigious festival held each year.
	Pennine Brass - A Championship Section brass band - their history and information about the personnel, events, and press reports. Includes photographs, and Real Audio and MP3 samples.
	Sellers International Band - History and information on the band, with photographs, music clips and on-line purchase of their recordings. Includes a diary of their concerts.
	Richard A. Major - Information about orchestral strings tuition. Includes practice tips, pages written by his pupils, and links.
	Chequers - A dance band - information on the members and their specialities, incoluding testimonials and contact details.
	Yorkshire Building Society Brass Band - Information about the band (originally the Hammond Sauce Works Band), their repertoire and musicians, with details of their recordings, and booking details. Events diary.
	Huddersfield Organist's Association - An archive of organs in and near Huddersfield, and information about an organisation promoting organ playing in the town. Details of events and membership.
	The Huddersfield Singers - Information about the choir and its history, members, and their music. Includes programme of concerts and events, ticket information, details of their recordings, and audio clips from a concert.
	The Paddock Orchestra - Information about an amateur orchestra, with photos, and details of rehearsals, concerts, and individual players.
	Manhattan Sound Big Band - Swing orchestra available for concerts and functions. Describes its repertoire and line-up with rehearsal information, area covered and reviews.
	LoveTechno - Underground techno event; details of venues and dates, with photos and DJ profiles.
	Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra - Contains concert dates, membership information, and tickets.
	Sons of Ushna - An all-Irish Huddersfield band. Information about the members and their music-making.
	Huddersfield Music Society - Encourages professional artists to perform chamber music concerts in St Paul's Hall. Includes a history of the organisation, plus information about its current activities, an events list and contacts.

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Heinlein) "When you resort to attacking the messenger and not the message, you have lost the debate." (Addison Whithecomb) I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers Music The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands. -- Oscar Wilde There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Anonymous Music I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. -- Hen The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary Maybe this world is another planet's hell. -- Aldous Huxley In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. "We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones." (Andrew A. Rooney) Music Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently. -- St. Augustine Music Here's to you and here's to me, and I hope we never disagree. But, if that should ever be, to HELL with you, here's to ME! -- Anonymous A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali A man's reach should exeed his grasp, or else what's a heaven for? -- Robert Browning "Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end." (William Shakespeare) Music May you grow so rich your widow's second husband never has to worry about a living, God forbid. I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back. - Paul Erdos Music I know I'm not in government anymore. In fact I'm out of work. -- Ronald Reagan, Former U.S. President, on a speaking tour of Japan, 1989 Change before you have to. -- Jack Welch In marriage, the bridge gets a shower. But for the groom, it's curtains! "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Music Is it better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than a man she loves. -- Anonymous I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but hurled with great force. -- Dorothy Parker Music Marriage certificate is just another word for a work permit. As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. your daughters marry men of substance: gypsies with two bears. Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw "Hold a true friend with both your hands." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can. -- Will Rogers No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese "Your children are not your children. They are sons and daughters of life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you. And though they are with you, they belong not to you. You may gi Music Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness. -- Madame de Rieux "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "'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, Through the Looking Glass) I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. - e e cummings Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. -- Oscar Wilde Music Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. -- Emily Dickinson When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living. -- Helen Rowland Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Music blah "It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." 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