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BelfastFolk - Information about the folk scene in the city. Includes event listings and photographs.
The Grand Opera House - Online booking, details of current and future shows, with downloadable brochures, and information on the location and history of the building.
Jim Maginn's Diddilee Dee - Photographic picture library, featuring major figures in the traditional music of Ireland, taken by Jim Maginn, a photographer in Belfast.
Moving on Music - Promoter of jazz, blues, traditional, world and electronic music. Includes events, mailing list and company profile.
Real Music Club - Roots and acoustic music organisation based at the Errigle Inn. Includes photos, gig list and contact details.
Takeover - Record label for local techno artists. Features mp3 samples of to date releases, how to get involved with the work and links.
Wilson, Ian - Contemporary composer. Picture, short biography, performances, discography, concert reviews and CD reviews.
Belfast Music Society - Runs a yearly season of classical music concerts at Elmwood Hall at Queen's. Includes concert programme and booking information.
Castleward Opera Company - Features performance information, reviews, FAQs and a virtual tour of the theatre in Castle Ward.
Grosvenor Chorale - Includes event information and online ordering of their Christmas CD album.
Ulster College of Music - Provides information about individual and group tuition, examinations and events.
Belfast Operatic Company - Information about concerts, musical shows, theatrical events, history and membership.
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Marriage is a matter of give and take, but so far I haven't been able to find anybody who'll take what I have to give. -- Cass Daley Music The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!", but "That's funny..." -- Isaac Asimov Tauzin backs term limits -- But he thinks it's a bad idea. -- Headline, story in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, Feb 20, 1995 Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing. -- Salvador Dali Music 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 Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteeen. -- Albert Einstein Give the people not hell, but hope and courage. -- John Murray In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) Music Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion. -- Fred Rogers, parody of "Row, row, row your boa "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them. -- Orison Swett Marden Music "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." (Thomas Jefferson) I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. -- Oscar Wilde "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945, 32nd U.S. President) Music The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. -- Nicholas Murray Butler Beneath the rule of men entirely great, / The pen is mightier than the sword. -- Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Richelieu, II. ii It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang. -- Tom Robbins Music These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder. -- Jeff Greenfield, news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995 Love is blind -- marriage is the eye-opener. -- Pauline Thomason Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. -- Rita Rudner To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash "Fake is as old as the Eden tree." (George Orson Welles) Music Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill Music Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins. -- Sioux Indian Prayer Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin "A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Music "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 He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be 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, Music "Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you." (Robert A. Heinlein) The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. -- Shirley MacLaine An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. -- Alfred A. Knopf "It ends not with a bang, but a whimper." (Thomas Stearns Eliot, aka T. S. Eliot, The Hollow Man) Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Music "People expect a certain reaction from a business, and when you pleasantly exceed those expectations, you've somehow passed an important psychological threshold." (Richard Thalheimer, president, The The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. -- Winston Churchill When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Guitry Music "I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me." (George Bernard Shaw) Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting the generations to come. -- Montesquieu Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right. - Frederick (II) the Great Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. -- Stephen Leacock Music If a thing is worth doing at all, it is worth doing badly. -- Gustav Holst, on amateur music-making May you live happily ever after with a poor, ugly, shrewish wife. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw Music I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about "short" and "cheap"? -- Phyllis Diller Love me or hate me, but spare me your indifference. -- Libbie Fudim Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha Music "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." (Jean Sibelius) No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whom timidity prevented from making a first effort. -- Sydney Smith Music I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain "I think it's about time we voted for senators with breasts. After all, we've been voting for boobs long enough." -- Arizona senatorial candidate Claire Sargent, on women candidates This world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. -- Horace Walpole Marriage is like a violin. After the music is over, you still have the strings. -- Anonymous When nations grow old, the arts grow cold and commerce settles on every tree. -- William Blake Music Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?" (Alec Guinness) "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 Music
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