The Four Horsemen Ride Apace..

" I like opera ... except for the vocals..."
.................................................................... - my brother


"Kaleidoscope is scored for 3 mechanical pianos. The timbre of mulitple pianos can have an ultra percussive and throughly revolting quality. The tempo plus the disagreeable nature of the noises produced [by] this thing with all its pounding and shreiking, make this piece unplayable by performers and unlistenable by humans.
Kaleidoscope, like other things I've submitted on this site, suddenly appeared without my bidding, I assure you. The music is so hidious that not only am I prepared to apologize for it, I am prepared to swear I had nothing to do with its creation."
.................................................................... -Fredrick Zinos, on his composition "Kaleidoscope for three Mechanical Pianos (2007)"



"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. "
......................................................................-Tom Stoppard


"..one thing my wit is not, is dry. I still consider the three stooges to be almost as funny as congress, but not as dangerous."
.....................................................................-F Zinos


Bach, whose music was included on the Voyager Golden Records as an example of humanity's best achievements, was also honored by author/scientist Lewis Thomas, who once suggested how people of Earth should communicate with the universe: "I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance. We can tell the harder truths later."

-Lewis Thomas


.............................................................you is not deep. Muzic is not about melody. Melody, melody, melody, jiggy, dancy, pooh pooh!
.................................................................................................................-Danilo Chompor


"She had not a thought in her head that was not a slogan, and there was no imbecility, absolutely none, that she was not capable of swallowing if the Party handed it out to her."
......................................................................George Orwell - "1984"


"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
......................................................................Mark Twain


"In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc."
......................................................................George Orwell - "1984"



"What I hope to get out of composing is a deeper more profound understanding of phrenology."
..................................................................F Zinos