Winter songs: New holiday music from Sarah McLachlan, James Taylor, Brad Paisley, Oleta Adams and more Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Records are rated on a scale of one (awful) to five (classic) stars. It's only 10 days till Christmas Eve, so if you aren't listening to holiday music yet, what are you waiting for? Maybe for this roundup of reviews. Without further ado, here's a full stocking of 2006 Christmas CDs.
December 13, 2006 Arts Journal
We all know (or we ought to know) that classical music used to be more popular in the United States than it is now. But how can we measure that? Well, in the 1950s the big TV networks showed spectacular classical telecast. That's one piece of evidence.
December 12, 2006 Arts Journal
(Another of my occasional posts about classical music publicity and promotion. It's so often done badly, with flyers, posters, and press releases that don't say a thing. How can we do it better?)
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Box up pop, rock, R&B and the blues USA Today
USA TODAY critics Edna Gundersen, Steve Jones, Brian Mansfield, Elysa Gardner and Ken Barnes highlight the season's box sets.
EU probe ordered into music merger News Interactive
THE European Union's executive commission overnight announced an in-depth investigation into Universal Music Publishing proposed takeover of BMG's music publishing business, delaying the process by months.
Composer's Grammy nomination an error News Interactive
MOVIE composer John Williams earned four Grammy nominations, not five as organisers originally announced this week, a spokeswoman for the music industry's most prestigious awards said overnight.
November 24, 2006 Arts Journal
Because this history isn’t well known, I thought I’d summarize some of the data I’ve uncovered about American orchestras in the past, and their audience. (Even at the risk of repeating myself.) This first post shows the data on the audience’s age.
November 18, 2006 Arts Journal
My post on how to attract a younger audience -- a way that really works - -has gotten an unusual number of comments. Apparently it struck a nerve, both for people who like the idea I offered, and for people who don't.
Arts Calendar Berkeley Daily Planet
The East Bay's Independent Newspaper

KQED | Arts and Literature: Music and Sound: The Classical Music
KQED and The Classical Music Archives, a major award-winning cultural Web site The Classical Music Archives, the largest archive of its kind on the Web,
Sawf Archive of Articles on Classical Indian Music
Articles and Real Audio clips, including many unpublished and rare recordings of past and contemporary masters.
Welcome to the Mutopia Project
But for a lot of classical music, editions do exist which are old enough, ftp space on which the Mutopia Project's website and music archive is stored.
sarangi.info
North Indian Classical Music Archive and Rajan Parrikar’s incomparable effort to bring to the web a panoramic view of Indian Classical Music.
Culturekiosque KlassikNet: Classical Music - Archive
CK's editors cover classical music in Europe, the US and worldwide.
Classical Music Archive
Classical Music Archive. November 27, 2006; Razzle-Dazzle Rossini. Yes, the Met is overhyping its new Il Barbiere di Siviglia. But the production has energy
Classical Music - Classical Net - Classical Music
The Classical Net web site offers a comprehensive collection of information and news on classical music subjects including articles and CD reviews,
Archive of World Music - Loeb Music Library - Harvard College Library
The Archive quickly attracted major collections including the James Rubin Collection of Indian Classical Music (probably the largest collection of Indian
Classical music
The classical music section holds speech and documentary programmes of all kinds. They include many tapes of talks and lectures given at the Sound Archive:
The InkVault: Classical Music Archives Index
The InkVault: CLASSICAL MUSIC Last Update: 12 March, 2001 • Total Article count: 851. The Inkpot's Classical Music Archive Listings is divided into 4 parts: classical+music+archive: free classical music archive , , free classical music archive , , classical+music+archive