Music Website News

More information about new or recently discovered music websites.

For orchestrators

A new mailing list has been set up for professional and academic arrangers. To subscribe, visit www.onelist.com/subscribe/arrangers . An excellent website for orchestration can be found at tiger.towson.edu/~jmeyer1/orchestration.html .

Malcolm Galloway and Kathryn Thomas

A free low-volume e-mail list about classical music events in London UK is run by Malcolm Galloway. Details at members.aol.com/malcolmjg/classical.html . Malcolm Galloway also invites you to visit the website of Kathryn Thomas and the Galliard Ensemble at members.aol.com/malcolmjg/Page1.html .

Mascagni website

A new (unofficial) fan site about Mascagni plans to centralise on-line information relating to Mascagni. Very little information was available previously. With the exception of Cavalleria Rusticana, Mascagni's music is underrated and rarely performed. Visit www.mascagni.org . Comments welcome. A mailing list is also available.

Scores online

The T.I.S. Vocal Music Catalog is a good and fairly competitive source for scores online, particularly opera vocal scores. Some secondhand scores are available at bibliofind.com .

Cheryl Studer

Cheryl Studer's 1999 schedule has been recently updated, and can be seen on her home page at www.total.net/~mrgdp/1999sche.html . The schedule and home page are maintained by the Cheryl Studer Society.

The Classical Singer

The Classical Singer magazine is online at www.classicalsinger.com . Their articles are well worth a read. Some areas of this Classical Singer Community website have free access, but a subscription is necessary to read the on-line version of the magazine.

Parnassus Records

The online store Parnassus Records are at www.parnassusrecords.com - particularly good for recordings on vinyl and their extensive catalogues of difficult to find material.

Portuguese Classical Music

Luis Alfonso's Portuguese Classical Music site is at www.terravista.pt/Meco/2672/ . Contains information in English about composers Carlos Seixas, Luis Costa and Joly Braga Santos (with an mp3 audio file sample of the music of each composer).

Winterreise

Margo Briessinck's website devoted to Winterreise is at www.ping.be/gopera/lieder/winterreise/ . Contains articles, full texts, translations, MIDI files, performance reviews and recording information.

Twin Cities

The following websites for music organisations in the Minneapolis and St Paul area of the USA may be of interest:

Additionally, www.visi.com/~diazwalby/band.html is a listing of community wind bands in Minnesota.

Copyright © Keith Bramich, May 4th 1999

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