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Allegro

http://www.teleport.com/~allegro/

Allegro bills itself as "the largest independent distributor of Classical Music in America." Features sound bytes from recent releases, as well as instructions on how to subscribe to Allegro's catalogs and automatic e-mailing list. This site also provides a link to the Magellan search engine.

Aspen Music Festival

http://www.infosphere.com:80/aspenonline/directory/ae/sponsors/artscouncil/sponsors/amf/index.amf.html

This site provides information about the Festival, its concert schedule, tickets, performing groups, and master classes. There is also an audition schedule for the Aspen Music School that is a part of the Festival.

Cecilia Bartoli FanWeb (Unofficial)

http://www.lochnet.com/client/gs/cb.html

Cecilia's admirers are many and vocal (not surprisingly) in singing her praises! A lot of information about this talented mezzo-soprano's recordings and career. You can converse with other fans and view their Web pages. Contains sound and image files, as well as links to other Bartoli pages.

Boston Chamber Ensemble

http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/jcb/BCE/bce.html

This instrumental group's concerts are devoted to music from the Renaissance Era to the present day. The BCE is particularly committed to supporting contemporary composers, and therefore holds an annual nationwide composition competition in an effort to expand its interaction with American composers. Learn more about this competition and the BCE's upcoming concert schedule at this site.

Chamber Music Conferences

http://www.ultranet.com/~cwholl/cmc/cmc.html

Provides a guide to chamber music conferences for amateur musicians and students. Contains information, schedules, fees, and application forms for more than 30 conferences.

Chicago Concert Search

http://www.tezcat.com/~andyhat/music/concerts.html

Features a searchable database that contains classical music concert schedules, including festivals, for the Chicago area. Enables you to search by calendar, performer, composer, or work.

Classical MIDI Archives

http://www.prs.net/midi.html

This multiple award-winning site provides archives of classical music audio files in MIDI format. Listen to your favorite works by Handel, Brahms, Scarlatti, and Albinoni. If you want to copy some of the sequences for your Web site, you must get the permission of the compiler.

Classical Music Home Page

http://www.classical.net/

Provides information on classical and early music. Includes a guide to building a basic CD collection, a buying guide for the serious collector, lists of more than 1,850 recommended CDs, and informative composer profiles. Searchable.

Classical Music on the Web

http://www.musdoc.com/classical

According to Dr. Douglas Bell, mastermind behind this site, navigating the Internet without a guide is like finding yourself in New York City without a map. With the help of this site, you'll at least be able to find the Internet landmarks of classical music that are equivalent to the Big Apple's Metropolitan Opera! While you're at it, enjoy Dr. Bell's "Ask the Musical Doctor" column.

Cleveland Concert Search

http://student-www.uchicago.edu/users/achatche/music/Cleveland/concerts.html

Provides a searchable database that contains comprehensive classical music concert schedules, including festivals, for the Cleveland area. Enables you to search by time period, performer, composer, or work.

DCI: Drum Corps International

http://www.dci.org/

Keep up with your favorite drum and bugle corps' competition schedule and scores as it participates in the Summer Music Games. Includes profiles of the Top Twelve, the Open Class, and the Division II and III corps. Contains links to various member corps' home pages.

Gilbert and Sullivan Archive

http://math.idbsu.edu/gas/GaS.html

Wandering Minstrels and Modern Major Generals alike will be enchanted by this multiple-award-winning site devoted to the famous William S. Gilbert/Arthur S. Sullivan collection of light operas. Here you can find out where and when your favorite Gilbert and Sullivan works will be staged. You can also search the complete libretti of all 14 Gilbert and Sullivan operas, and link to Web pages by local Gilbert and Sullivan performing ensembles in the United States, Great Britain, Canada, and Australia.

Gregorian Chant Home Page

http://www.music.princeton.edu:80/chant_html/

For the serious scholar, this award-winning site sponsored by Princeton University contains extensive information pertaining to the study of Gregorian liturgical music. There are links to related pages that include sound files of early music compositions. Also included are links to sites of ecclesiastical and musicological interest, as well as downloadable texts and tutorials.

David Helfgott

http://www.helfgott.aust.com/

The site for the Australian concert pianist. Images, tour dates, and press releases can be found here. Also provides links to information about the biographical movie shine.

Indiana University School of Music

http://www.music.indiana.edu/

Presents information about IU's renowned music school online, including its programs, schedules, and concerts. Offers a resource page that can help you find nearly anything related to classical music. Also includes an index of music resources on the Internet.

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra

http://www.in.net/iso/

Contains a history of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (ISO) and its present home, the historic Circle Theater. Also features biographical information about conductor/composer/musicologist Raymond Leppard, and the ISO's monthly concert schedule, as well as the schedule of Instrument Petting Zoo—a program sponsored by the ISO that teaches children about musical instrument families by allowing them to handle and play a collection of donated instruments.

Katia and Marielle Labeque Home Page

http://shrine.cyber.ad.jp/~hartline/labequehome.html

Meet the French sisters who have taken the music world by storm with their interpretations of classical two-piano literature. There's a CD list that also includes their jazz/fusion recordings. A fans and links page connects you with other Labeque lovers.

La Ma de Guido

http://www.webcom.com/musics/guido.html

Title means "Guido's Hand." Guido was a medieval theorist, who supposedly used a diagram of the hand to teach students how to read music. You can see the diagram at this site, maintained by a publishing house that specializes in classical music and CDs by Spanish and Catalan artists. Biographies of the artists are included.

Le Nozze di Figaro

http://server.music.vt.edu/lenozze/lenozzehome.html

Contains information on Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro. Offers sections about Figaro's composition, its music, and its dramatis personae.

Maestronet

http://www.maestronet.com/

Players and collectors of classical stringed instruments will find Maestronet's site useful for finding and pricing the Stradivari of their dreams. The Instrument Showroom databases provide listings of instruments from around the world, as well as price information. The Conservatory section includes sheet music in Adobe Acrobat format, which you can download and print. MIDI files of this music are also available, so that your computer can accompany you as you play!

T. M. McComb: Music Home Page

http://www.best.com:80/~mccomb/music/

Provides one music writer's recommendations of classical, early music, and world music CDs. Contains informative notes on the different styles of music.

Music Hall

http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/vatican.exhibit/exhibit/e-music/Music.html

Presents the music area of the Vatican Exhibit at the Library of Congress online. Contains four "rooms" of art treasures, primarily pages from Medieval and Renaissance illuminated music manuscripts. Provides notes with all the art works.

New York Philharmonic

http://www.nyphilharmon.org/

The home page of one of the most highly respected symphony orchestras in the United States. Provides schedule and ticket information, profiles members of the orchestra, and supplies historical and archival facts about the orchestra and its home, Avery Fisher Hall.

Opera Schedule Server

http://www.fsz.bme.hu/opera/main.html

Offers a searchable database that contains the schedules of opera companies around the world. Also contains basic information on major opera houses worldwide.

OPERA-L Home Page

http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/ngb/operah.html

Includes a guide to recorded opera, an A to Z guide to composers, an A to Z guide to operas, synopses of operas (you are invited to contribute a synopsis if your favorite opera is not already listed), photos of opera stars, and links to other opera sites.

Performing Arts Sites

http://artsnet.heinz.cmu.edu/Artsites/PerformingArts.html

Sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University, this site includes links—carefully chosen for their quality—to opera, theater, Broadway musical, music, and dance pages. If you are looking for a place to stage your performance art, this site also provides links to possible locations.

Picture Gallery of 1,000 Classical Composers

http://spight.physics.unlv.edu/picgalr2.html

Presents a brief background and picture of classical composers of all nationalities and time periods. The site is searchable by nation or year. This is a very good site for anyone who is a fan of classical music.

Worldwide Internet Music Resources

http://www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/

If you are planning on doing any sort of music research online, this is the place to start. Sponsored by Indiana University's Music Library, this site provides an extensive list of music types, performers, and popular/classical musical ensembles. Other lists include schools and departments of music around the world, music industry leaders, and music-related journals and magazines.