This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
German Composer, Opera Director
"Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action."